Gunmen kills 13 people at a Mexican family reunion - including a one-year-old child Police in eastern Mexico say gunmen broke into a family party and opened fire Seven men, five women and a child were killed and at least four others wounded Veracruz Public Security Department says attackers asked for El Beky on Friday It's not clear if the man, a local bar owner, was killed in the attack at 9pm Survivor said gunmen made victims look them in the face before shooting them It was two days before President Obrador was due for official visit Authorities are searching for the shooters and the state held emergency meetingBy Leah Simpson For Dailymail.com and Associated Press and Reuters Published: 14:48 BST, 21 April 2019 | Updated: 14:51 BST, 21 April 2019 Viewcomments 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, near the Gulf of Mexico. Officials say they don't yet know a motive for the shooting. Authorities are searching for the shooters and said 'they would not go unpunished in any way' The Secretariat of Public Safety said the gunmen arrived at a family reunion in Minatitlan A view outside the bar where unidentified assailants opened fire killing 13 people in Minatitlan In video obtained from the scene people could be heard crying as police surrounded the location where beverage bottles were seen on the ground and colorful bunting decorations were still hung. A survivor described how gunmen made victims look them in the face before shooting them. 'They told them to turn around to see them, to see them while they were killing them,' one woman told AFP. 'I felt the gun at my head ... the guy pointed it at me but didn't shoot.' Another woman, whose brother was killed, added nobody was shown mercy: 'There were about six of them. Even if you had a baby in your arms, they still shot you.' Minatitlán Mayor Nicolás Reyes Álvarez said it was a 'tragedy that tears the soul' and added that he 'deeply regrets' the massacre. He called for an investigation to find the attackers 'so they would not go unpunished in any way' and said he planned to ask Obrador to assign the National Guard, CNN reported. State held emergency meeting and the mayor asked the president to assign National Guard Members of the Mexican police stand guard Saturday after a massacre occurred a day earlier Veracruz state Gov. Cuitláhuac García tweeted that state authorities held an emergency meeting 'to address the regrettable and condemnable events'. Authorities set up checkpoints in the region to help search for the attackers. 'Federal and state forces have deployed a strong search and capture operation of those responsible for the events,' the state's secretary of public security Gutiérrez Maldonado, tweeted Saturday. Friday's slayings was one of the worst incidents since Obrador took office in December, vowing to reduce violence in Mexico. More than 200,000 people have been killed there since the end of 2006 in brutal turf wars between drug cartels and their clashes with security forces. After reaching record levels in 2018, murder rates have stayed high, surpassing previous-year levels in the first three months of the new government, official government data shows. Minatitlán Mayor Nicolás Reyes Álvarez said it was a 'tragedy that tears the soul' and added that he 'deeply regrets' the massacre Read more: Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility