Mexico drug clinic shooting leaves nine dead

[Bullfighter]

Mexico drug clinic shooting leaves nine dead​

Page last updated at 11:22 GMT, Sunday, 27 June 2010 12:22 UK
E-mail this to a friend Printable version Nine people have been shot dead in an attack on a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Mexico.

Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the centre in the city of Gomez Palacio, Durango state, on Saturday afternoon.

The bodies were found in different parts of the centre, which had nearly 50 patients, a senior local official said.

Earlier this month, a similar attack on another drug rehabilitation centre in northern Mexico left 19 people dead.

In recent years, dozens have died in similar attacks.

Such shootings are blamed on drug traffickers, who accuse the clinics of protecting dealers from rival gangs, observers say.

Also, police say drug cartels use rehabilitation clinics to recruit hitmen and smugglers - and threaten to kill those who fail to co-operate.

Durango state deputy attorney general Ramiro Ortiz said the owner of the centre attacked in Gomez Palacio was among the dead, and appeared to have been the main target, AP reported.

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Now that is the way America should rehab its drug addicted losers.

 

[Angelhair]

The total is now what - 24,000?

 

[WillowTree]

Hey ya'll stfu, we gots this under control, we're gonna sue Arizona. donchyaknow?

 

[waltky]

11 Killed At Drug Rehab Center...

11 killed at Mexican drug rehab centre
2012-06-04 - Eleven people were killed and at least nine others wounded in northwestern Mexico when a group of contract gunmen attacked a drug rehabilitation centre in the city of Torreon, police said.

"The armed attackers came on two pickup trucks, entered the centre and opened fire," a senior police official said on condition of anonymity. The assault on the church-operated rehabilitation centre known as "Your Life on the Rock" occurred on Sunday night, police officials said. The gunmen used AR-15 assault rifles and 9mm calibre pistols, the police noted, saying more people could have been wounded in the attack.

According to eyewitnesses, some of the victims walked away from the centre and disappeared before the police arrived. The dead have not been identified yet. The assault took place nearly a year after an attack on a similar rehabilitation centre in Torreon, located in Coahuila state, that also left 11 people dead and two wounded. Five drug rehabilitation centres - all in the north of the country - were attacked in 2010.

Mexico has been struggling with a massive crime wave in recent years, with more than 50 000 people believed to have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006. That year the government launched a military crackdown on the country's powerful drug cartels, which are themselves locked in brutal turf wars marked by macabre displays of violence such as beheadings and mass graves. The government's official count of more than 47 000 dead has not been updated since last September.

11 killed at Mexican drug rehab centre | News24

 

[TexasRob]

Normally these are not drug addicts seeking help but former drug leaders trying to avoid people they owe since rehab clinics are mostly anonymous. So rival gangs go in to seek and kill one person but we all know its easier to spray hundreds of rounds rather than going door to door.

 

[Katzndogz]

While we sit on our asses while drugged up zombies cannibalize their victims, the cartels in mexico take out 11 addicts, permanently.

They are doing better than we are.

 

[freedombecki]

How many of those killer guns did the DOJ provide?

 

[Angelhair]

How many of those killer guns did the DOJ provide?

As many as MEXICO will ALLOW to enter their country.

 

[Katzndogz]

It doesn't matter where they got the guns, or who gave or sold them the guns. The gunmen performed a public service.

 

[waltky]

The killin' goes on in Mexico...

Mexico Violence: 5 Dismembered Bodies Found In Durango
8/17/12 — State prosecutors in Mexico say at least five dismembered bodies have been found in Durango. That northern state is the scene of a bloody drug cartel rivalry.

The state attorney general's office says the bodies of four men and a woman were found in 12 plastic bags Friday morning in the town of Gomez Palacio.

Durango has long been synonymous with Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, but officials have told The Associated Press that the once orderly and brutally efficient gang is being torn by an internal power struggle in the state.

The officials say at least two local groups have sought to break off from Sinaloa and control drug shipment routes through Durango. A third group has remained loyal to boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted man.

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3 women shot to death on road in central Mexico
Saturday, August 18, 2012 - Police found the bodies of three women who were shot to death early Saturday with assault rifles on a roadside in the central Mexico state of Morelos.

Police found the bodies of three women who were shot to death early Saturday with assault rifles on a roadside in the central Mexico state of Morelos. The women were believed to be between the ages of 20 and 25, though they had not been identified. Two of the women had their hands tied behind their backs. One was wearing only a blouse.

The Morelos state prosecutors' office said 15 spent shells from assault rifles were found at the scene. Morelos is just south of Mexico City and has been the scene of drug cartel turf battles involving the remnants of the Beltran Leyva gang.

In the western state of Michoacan, police found a total of eight bodies in two clumps on the side of a highway. Four of the bodies were charred beyond recognition in a burned-out sport utility vehicle, said Carlos Arrieta, the spokesman for the Michoacan state prosecutors office. A man's dismembered body was found in several plastic bags near the vehicle.

Several towns away along the same highway, police found the bullet-riddled bodies of three more men. The area has seen bloody fighting between the Knights Templar cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generation gang, which is believed to be allied with the Sinaloa cartel.

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[waltky]

14 dead in Mexico after clashes with police...

14 people killed in clashes with Mexican police
Apr. 11,`13 — At least 14 people died Wednesday in a series of clashes between gunmen and federal police in Michoacan state, a western area that has seen a surge of violence in recent years attributed to drug cartels, authorities said.

Federal police said in a statement the first gunbattle began when officers aboard a helicopter spotted armed men traveling in four vehicles in the town of Gabriel Zamora. The gunmen opened fire on the agents, who shot back and killed five assailants, the statement said. It said one of those killed was high in the leadership structure of a Michoacan-based drug cartel, but didn't identify the group. Hours later in the town of Apatzingan, federal agents were accompanying a caravan of citizens commemorating the anniversary of the death of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata when gunmen fired shots at some of the participants. Police killed one of the gunmen, authorities said.

The citizens continued on and were again attacked by gunmen who fired from an overpass, police said. Eight people died and another eight were wounded, including two police officers. The Knights Templar cartel, which controls much of Michoacan, has been fighting rivals along its borders with other states including Guerrero, where a variety of smaller cartels control drug smuggling and other criminal activities. The clashes came the same day that the Mexican government announced drug-related killings from December through March had dropped 14 percent from the same period a year earlier. The Interior Department said 4,249 people were killed during the first four months of President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration. It said 4,934 were killed between December 2011 and March 2012.

A forensic worker covers the body of a woman who was shot dead by assailants, whose daughter was also killed, while she was selling coffee on a street corner in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Violence, kidnappings and extortions carried out by drug cartels continue to plague this Pacific resort city which has witnessed a large increase in violent crimes during the past years.

But Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said that "it's too early to assume victorious attitudes." The government of previous President Felipe Calderon stopped releasing figures of drug killings in September 2011. Osorio Chong said the federal government continued to keep a count. The Interior Department report said 184 law enforcement officials were killed between December and March, including soldiers, and federal and local police. Bloody clashes are still common in Mexico and there are times when it's impossible to know how many people died because drug traffickers take their dead away before authorities reach the scene.

In the border city of Reynosa, there were at least four major shootouts between rival drug gangs in March. One of the clashes lasted several hours. People reported dozens of dead on social networks and at least 12 were corroborated by witnesses. The official account, however, listed two dead. Osorio Chong said the state of Tamaulipas, where Reynosa is located, is one of the "most important spots for this administration" when it comes to security.

14 people killed in clashes with Mexican police

 

[Mr. H.]

They could use some drones, if they aren't already.