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Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation centre in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said.
Police in the north-central state of Guanajuato said the attack occurred in the city of Irapuato. Three of the seven wounded were reported in serious condition.
Apparently the attackers shot everyone at the rehab centre. State police said nobody was abducted.
Photos purporting to showed the scene suggest those at the centre were lying down when they were sprayed with bullets.
The attackers “entered the scene, forced (the victims) on to the ground and shot them,” said Pedro Cortes, secretary of public security in Irapuato.
Guanajuato is the scene of a bloody turf battle between the Jalisco cartel and a local gang, and the state has become the most violent in Mexico.
No motive was given in the attack, but Governor Diego Sinhue said drug gangs appeared to have been involved.

“I deeply regret and condemn the events in Irapuato this afternoon,” Sinhue wrote. “The violence generated by organised crime not only takes the lives of the young, but it takes the peace from families in Guanajuato.”
Mexican drug gangs have killed suspected street-level dealers from rival gangs sheltering at such facilities in the past. It was one of the deadliest attacks on a rehab centre since 19 people were killed in 2010 in Chihuahua city in northern Mexico. More than a dozen attacks on such facilities have occurred since then.
At least 20 killed in Mexican drug cartel gun battles near US border
Mexico has long had problems with rehab centres because most are privately run, underfunded and often commit abuses against recovering addicts.
The government spends relatively little money on rehabilitation, often making the unregistered centres the only option available for poor families.


In addition, addicts and dealers who face attacks from rivals on the streets sometimes take refuge at the rehab clinics, making the clinics themselves targets for attack.
Still other gangs have been accused of forcibly recruiting recovering addicts at the centres as dealers, and killing them if they refused.
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Last Friday, the powerful Jalisco cartel was believed to have staged the highest profile assassination attempt in living memory in the Mexican capital, deepening concern about President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s strategy to focus on economic development over heavy handed law enforcement.
Last year, almost 100 homicide victims a day were registered in Mexico. In addition, more than 60,000 people are believed to have disappeared.
At least 26 people were killed in an arson attack by suspected gang members on a bar in the southern Mexican port of Coatzacoalcos last August.
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Massacre in Mexico as gunman execute 24 at drug rehab centre

Troops at the scene of the massacre. Photo: AP

Relatives of the victims of a shooting at an unregistered drug rehabilitation center wait in anguish outside the rehab center in Irapuato, Mexico, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Gunmen burst into the center and opened fire, killing more than 20 and wounding several more. (AP Photo/Mario Armas)

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A still from a Mexican government video shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez at the moment of his detention in Culiacan, Mexico. Photo: CEPROPIE via AP

Screenshot of a handout video released during the morning press conference of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on October 30, 2019 by the Mexican Government's Production Centre for Informative and Special Programmes (CEPROPIE), with the security forces' face digitally altered to protect their identities, showing the moment of the arrest of alleged trafficker Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, on October 17, 2019. - Ovidio Guzman -- one of several sons of El Chapo who have taken control of the Sinaloa cartel since their father was extradited to the United States -- was detained on October 17 but released soon after, after the arrest triggered an all-out gun battle on the streets of Culiacan, capital of their cartel's bastion, Sinaloa. Mexico's defence minister confirmed he was released after soldiers were overpowered by cartel gunmen, in what he admitted was a "badly planned" operation. (Photo by HO / CEPROPIE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL

Cartel gunmen are seen near a burning truck during clashes with federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer

At least 20 killed in Mexican drug cartel gun battles near US border

Bullet-riddled trucks left abandoned in the streets were marked C.D.N. – Spanish initials of the Cartel of the Northeast gang. Photo: AP

Bullet holes riddle the interior of a home after a gun battle between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel members, in Villa Union, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. At least 14 people were killed, four of them police officers, after an armed group in a convoy of trucks stormed the town, in Coahuila state, prompting security forces to intervene, state Gov. Miguel Riquelme Solis said. (AP Photo/Gerardo Sanchez)

A damaged pick up is on a street of Villa Union, Mexico, after a gun battle between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel gunmen on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. At least 14 people were killed, four of them police officers, after an armed group in a convoy of trucks stormed the town, in Coahuila state, prompting security forces to intervene, state Gov. Miguel Riquelme Solis said. (AP Photo/Gerardo Sanchez)

The City Hall of Villa Union is riddled with bullet holes after a gun battle between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel gunmen, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. At least 14 people were killed, four of them police officers, after an armed group in a convoy of trucks stormed the town, in Coahuila state, prompting security forces to intervene, state Gov. Miguel Riquelme Solis said. (AP Photo/Gerardo Sanchez)

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Several individuals entered clinic, threw the residents to the ground and shot them, police said
Much violence in Mexico is attributed to cartels and gangs involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion



Several individuals entered clinic, threw the residents to the ground and shot them.


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