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He could hear the screams from the cupboard. Soon after they entered, the witness says they started shooting behind the bar and massacring people. He says he saw three subjects with weapons enter the bar, and that he had believed it was the police, who regularly monitor the bar. News outlet Regeneración reports that a witness who was entering the bar at the time of the shooting says he took refuge in a cupboard as soon as he heard the shootings. The doctor, who works at Ignacio García Tellez hospital in Xalapa, said that among the wounded there was a 14 year old pregnant minor who suffered a severe wound in the leg and another one in the arm. Her comments are backed by various witnesses, including a local doctor who tended to the injured and knowing that the authorities would try to cover up the facts, told reporters at El Noreste there were more than 15 people dead. A local reporter notes “there were many more than what the government says, obviously”. The state prosecutor released a statement saying that there were 5 people killed in the shooting and 14 injured, of which 12 have been discharged from hospital, however Mexico has a long history of manipulating the media and of journalists being killed. On 22 May, the three gunmen entered Madame gay bar in Xalapa - a city in the state of Veracruz - and carried out a mass shooting, killing what is believed to be more than 15 people and injuring many others. More than 15 people are believed to have been killed in a mass shooting at a gay bar in Xalapa, Mexico a little over three weeks ago.