17 people died at a private weekend celebrations on July 18, Sunday held at the outskirts of Torreon, Mexico after a gunman opened fire.

The gunman is said to have fired 200 bullets at the party. More than 12 people are left injured. Torreon is an industrial city located at the northern state of Coahuila. The people who died were between 20 – 30 years of age.

Coahuila police source informed, “A heavily armed hit squad arrived and cried ‘killed them all!’ and they started shooting”.

The shooting seems to be similar with attack that took place in January when a gunman killed 16 people, all of them going at a party in Ciudad Juarez.

The firing started almost at 01:30 am (local time). The investigations revealed that the firing was done by AK-47 automatic rifles, which is a common weapon used by the drug gangs belonging to Mexico.