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19 killed in Mexico at clandestine rooster fight

 Nin🔯eteen people were killed when shooters burst into a clandestine rooster fight in western Mexico, prosecutors in the state of the west of Michoacan said Monday.

19 killed in Mexico at clandestine rooster fight
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The attack occurred late Sunda🅺y near the town of Zinapecuaro, Michoacan. The dead include 16 men and three women🍷 and several wounded people in the attack. The office said that drug cartels and gangs had been fighting in the area. 

Michoacan has been the scene﷽ of a longstanding turf battle between local cartels and the Jalisco cartel from🎃 the neighboring state of Jalisco. 

 The fighting has included bomb-dropping drones, landmines, and homemade armored carಞs.

While illegal in many areas, Cockfighting remains a popular pastime in parts of Mexico, though the fights between roosters are usually heꦐld clan🐬destinely.