Mexico: Shooting at a Rehabilitation Center

Police vehicles surround a Mexican drug rehabilitation centre after gunmen kill 17 patients.

The hooded attackers lined up their victims in a corridor and shot them.

This woman's relatives were among the dead.

[Unidentified Family Member]:
"No one was saved, they killed everyone. He was here because he was an addict; the two of them were addicts. We put them in there to see if they would get better."

The northern border town Ciudad Juarez is at the heart of Mexico's drug war.

10,000 troops have been drafted in to keep law and order.

But vicious tit for tat killings among rival drugs gangs continue unabated.

13,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 — 4000 of them this year alone.

Troops have managed to disrupt some cocaine supplies to the United States.

But the top drugs barons remain at large.

Mexico's leader Felipe Calderon has staked his Presidency on crushing the cartels.

But he clearly has much work to do.

As police removed the victims of the rehab shootings, an investigation also began into the shotgun death of a deputy police chief in Calderon's home state.

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[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Ahora mataron 17 en u8na fiesta. Es triste cuando quieren matar a los quen quieren dejar la droga! SON TERORISTAS - OBAMA, A MEXICO CON LOS SOLDADOS PARA MATAR A TODOS LOS CARTELES!

[gaisar80]

Es obvio que si andas en malos pasos, esos pasos te van a seguir toda la vida, si el asunto fue con drogas, es obvio que las consecuencias son mortales como esto, pero fuera de eso, a los sicarios no les importan quien sean, ellos agarran parejo y no dejan testigos, es una pena que estas noticias den la vuelta al mundo hasta noticieros de inglaterra, es una mala imagen de mi pais pero algo se tiene que hacer con este asunto y obvio hay consecuencias de dejarlo pasar tanto tiempo.

[carlangaslongas]

this was made at the same time with that young guys, but kill one by one the notice is not so hot like this... and thats what really happens every day.