MEXICO CITY—Crime groups launched coordinated attacks on a regional electricity grid that left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and several dead in a rare case of civilians being deliberately targeted in Mexico’s drug war. The attacks in Mexico’s southern Michoacán state on Sunday morning left some 420,000 residents, about 10% of the state’s population, without electricity, authorities said. The outages also happened in Morelia city, where an international film festival attended by the directors Quentin Tarantino and Alfonso Cuarón was under way. On Monday, as electricity mostly returned, the government didn’t specify how exactly the attacks shut down the system, only that armed men fired bullets and threw Molotov cocktails at electricity stations throughout the state, leaving 11 towns and cities without power. Officials confirmed that five people were killed in attacks, but didn’t say how or why. A resident and local media reports said a crime […]