HEARTBREAKING images shows the body of a six-year-old boy lying in a pool of blood on his dead mum after a massacre shooting in Mexico.

Over the weekend, cartel hitmen callously assassinated 48 people in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato — with horrific pictures revealing the shocking extent of the bloodshed.

Caught in the senseless crossfire was a young boy, innocently dining with his parents at a street taco stand on Saturday night, when at least 10 gunmen fired 4o shots.

Gunmen engaged authorities for 15 minutes at around 9pm local in the city of Celaya.

The shooting, which left eight people dead, included the young boy, his father and pregnant mother.

It also claimed the life of an elderly person who was walking to a local bodega to purchase bread.

Shocking government data revealed a record 3,540 people were murdered in Guanajuato in 2019 — making it the deadliest state in the country.

Friday was the Guanajuato's deadliest day this year — by a long stretch — with 22 reported assassinations.

Among the victims were nine people killed by a group of armed men aboard three vehicles at a highway service stop in city of Villagrán at around 9pm.

Cops found six of the dead in a pool of blood inside a nearby restaurant.

Images of the senseless gang attack showed three other lying dead on the ground outside.

According to Mexican news outlet Proceso, a unit of National Guardsmen were met with fire as they arrived at the scene before the gunmen escaped.

In a separate Saturday shooting, a police officer was killed by an armed group while he was riding his bicycle in Celaya moments after completing his shift.

Responding to a Sunday morning shooting at a home in the municipality of León, cops found six people shot, including five who died.

Police reports said the massacre took place inside a residence that served as a stash house for local drug dealers in the neighborhood of San José de Cementos.

Investigators also confiscated an unspecified amount of marijuana and an AK-47.

Local media outlets reported that the incident was the result of a turf war between two groups.

No arrests have been attributed to any of the weekend killings.

Security forces, however, did apprehend 29 suspects tied to Mexico's most powerful criminal organization, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and its main rival, the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, during a series of operations last week.

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