A staggering 8,493 people were assassinated in the first three months of 2019 in Mexico, according to government data released on Sunday.

It marks the country's deadliest trimester on record, amid heightened violence from regional gangs and multinational cartels.

According to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, 2,855 people were murdered in January, 2,802 in February and 2,836 in March.

That represents a 9.7 percent increase from the same period in 2018, as the country struggles to contain vicious criminal organizations reigning terror in remote areas as well as some of Mexico’s top tourist destinations.

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Violence in Mexico led to the assassinations of 8,493 during the first three months of 2019. The country's most powerful criminal organization, the New Jalisco Generation Cartel, recently left a severed head (pictured) of a male victim on a street

Mexico reported its worst quarter in recent history after government data showed 8,493 people were assassinated in the first three months of 2019. Under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (pictured), the country had seen an average of 93 assassinations every day

The country suffered 5,441 assassinations for the same period in 2011, the year former president Felipe Calderón announced the fightback against Mexico's criminal organizations.

In the first three months of 2018 - former president Enrique Peña Nieto's last term in office - the figure was 6,599.

A record 33,369 people were assassinated in the whole of 2018, the most since the country started keeping official numbers in 1997.

During 2019, Mexico has suffered an average of 93 assassinations every day.

In February, the Mexican Senate approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's proposal to create the country's first National Guard, a unit consisting of police officer and military personnel to counter the rising violence.

An alleged hit squad with the New Jalisco Generation Cartel recorded the moment they decapitated a member of the the rival Zetas Old School criminal group in Mexico. The gruesome attack was shared on social media March 20

Guanajuato, Mexico's most deadliest state, registered 947 homicides in the first quarter of 2019.

The data also brought to light the murders of 244 women so far in 2019, up from 199 during the same period last year.

The first quarter report also noted 441 kidnappings, up from 267 reported in 2018.