Mexico: 19 die in attack at rehabilitation center
More than 25 gunmen with high-powered weapons burst into a drug rehabilitation center late Thursday in Chihuahua City and killed 19 men, an act that was described by officials on Friday as the worst in the city's history, foreign media reported.
Carlos Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Chihuahua attorney general's office, said witnesses reported that at least 25 men armed with R-15 and AK-47 rifles walked into the two-story building and methodically opened fired.
Nineteen men were killed, two were wounded and six were not injured, Gonzalez said.
Most of the victims ranged in age from 23 to 65, Gonzalez said. One of the dead was 16-year-old boy.
About 23,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón took office in late 2006 and began a war against drug cartels. About 5,300 people have been killed in Juárez since the beginning of 2008.