Uruguay reels from rare quintuple homicide as five relatives shot dead in Montevideo

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The victims were linked to “Los Suárez,” a criminal group that operated in the Villa Española neighborhood and had moved to the area amid disputes over drug saleshttps://en.mercopress.com/data/cache/noticias/110744/100x80/homi.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0 12px 6px 0; border: 1px solid #333;" width="100" />
Five members of the same family, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed on Friday in a shooting in the El Monarca neighborhood, on the northeastern outskirts of Montevideo, in an attack that authorities link to violence between criminal groups and that has no recent precedent in Uruguay.

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