Six people are massacred in Mexico bar bloodbath that also left nine wounded

• Six customers were stabbed dead at a bar in the southeastern city of Macuspana
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Six people were killed and nine were wounded at an illegally operated bar in southeast Mexico state of Tabasco.

Three assailants arrived in motorcycles and stormed the 'De Luci' bar, where they attacked them with knives on Thursday.

The aftermath of the carnage was filmed and leaked on social media, with corpses strewn across the blood-soaked concrete floor of the bar, located in the Tabasco municipality of Macuspana.

Footage showed two of the survivors lying on the street pavement and covered in blood before paramedics and authorities arrived.

Two of the injured victims are in critical condition, Debate news outlet reported.

No arrests had been reported as of Friday evening. 

A local media reporter indicated that some of the people who were murdered had their hands tied.

The incident took place just five days after members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel announced their arrival in Macuspana, the birthplace of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Members of the cartel abandoned three corpses outside a school for kindergarteners

They left a narco banner threatening workers of the leader of a local criminal group, indicating that they would go after anyone involved in kidnapping.

The banner also include a message alerting gang members of retribution if they continued to extort restaurant and bar owners.

Crime data released by the federal government this week showed that at least 387 murders were registered during the first five months of 2024 in Tabasco.

In comparison, 283 people homicides were reported all of last year.

Despite the spike in murders, Governor Carlos Merino said last month that it was too early to say if 2024 would be the deadliest year in state history.

'We still don't know because in 18 or 19 there were more than 600 homicides, so I think it is premature to give those figures,' the lame duck leader said. 

'The truth is that it has increased, but work is being done precisely against the criminal groups that are acting here.'