MEXICO CITY: At least six people were killed and a dozen others injured when armed assailants opened fire at a bar in Mexico's Tabasco state, local officials confirmed.
"Five people were found dead at the scene, while another succumbed to injuries after being taken to the hospital, " Gilberto Melquiades Miranda, deputy prosecutor of the state Attorney General's Office, told a press conference, Xinhua news agency reported.
Preliminary reports indicated a group of armed men entered the nightclub in the state capital Villahermosa in search of a person and shot at bystanders, the deputy prosecutor said, adding that authorities have ruled out the involvement of organised crime.