Terrifying moment school kids in Mexico duck for cover as army of gunmen unleash barrage of bullets

A classroom full of terrified kindergarten students and teachers frantically ducked for cover as an army of gunmen opened fire nearby in southern Mexico.

Surveillance footage showed the heavily armed gunman arriving on pickup trucks and unleashing a hail of bullets at the Samher’z Medical Clinic in Beneméritos de las Américas, a town in the state of Chiapas, across the border from Guatemala, on Wednesday, according to media reports. 

During the barrage, a separate video taken from inside a nearby classroom showed adults and mostly young children cowering on the floor as gunshots ring out for more than a minute.  

Heavily armed gunmen launched an attack in Beneméritos de las Américas, a town in the state of Chiapas, across the border from Guatemala

Teachers were seen huddling around students at a school during the terrifying moment 

A bevy of boys and girls were instructed to remain on the floor and told not to cry as the adults in the room huddled around them, the video showed.

One of the adults picked up a small child and placed him behind a table as the shots continued.

In the surveillance video, the gunmen can be seen jumping back on their vehicles and fleeing the scene.

A third video captured the aftermath of the attack, which left the clinic’s façade riddled with bullet holes and bullet casings strewn across the ground.

Numerous bullet holes were seen covering the Samher'z Medical Clinic

The gunmen arrived on pickup trucks and split in groups before opening fire

A teacher peered out a window as the gunfire continued for more than a minute

It is unknown if anyone was inside the clinic during the attack.

Chiapas state and Beneméritos de las Américas city officials had not addressed the incident as of Friday.

Local news outlets reported that Wednesday was the fourth consecutive day rival cartels launched attacks on each other.

Beneméritos de las Américas and other towns near the border with Guatemala serve as strategic drug and migrant smuggling points for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel.