By Leah Simpson For Dailymail.com and Associated Press and Reuters
Published: 14:48 BST, 21 April 2019 | Updated: 14:51 BST, 21 April 2019
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Police in eastern Mexico say gunmen broke into a family reunion party and opened fire, killing 13 people and wounding at least four others.
The Veracruz state Public Security Department says seven men, five women and a one-year-old child were killed in the Friday night attack at an events hall in the oil city of Minatitlan.
There were believed to have been about six attackers and a department statement said they asked for a man called 'El Beky,' who apparently owns a bar in the city.
It's not clear if the man owns a bar at the location where the attack occurred which is close to Minatitlan's oil refinery, one of six run by state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Police in eastern Mexico say gunmen broke into a family party and opened fire Friday at 9pm
Seven men, five women and a one-year-old child were killed and at least four others wounded
A survivor said gunmen made victims look them in the face before shooting them in the bar
Veracruz Public Security Department says the attackers in Minatitlan asked for El Beky
It's not clear if he was among the dead.
The Good Friday shootings took place around 9pm, just two days before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was due for an official visit.
Easter weekend festivities were canceled in the city 315 miles southeast of Mexico City,
