Gunmen stormed a hospital in Mexico Monday to assault a person recovering from a gunshot wound, killing him and two law enforcement officials, authorities stated.
The attackers shot the person greater than 10 occasions within the central city of Atlixco, then killed police who tried to cease them from fleeing, the general public safety secretariat in Puebla state stated.
“The sufferer initially entered the hospital early Sunday morning on his personal, since he had been injured by a gunshot wound at a gathering,” Puebla safety secretary Daniel Ivan Cruz instructed a information convention.
“Early Monday morning, the particular person was killed by a number of males who entered the hospital,” he stated.
“After listening to the emergency name and arriving on the scene, the police got here beneath hearth and died on the spot,” he added.
Investigators have been wanting into whether or not the affected person — who was round 30 years outdated — was concerned in unlawful actions, the safety secretariat stated.
Atlixco, a preferred vacationer vacation spot, receives hundreds of holiday makers right now of yr for the Day of the Useless competition.
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Puebla has been affected by brutal violence earlier than. In April, authorities within the state discovered seven our bodies with 5 of them decapitated and one other fully dismembered — with a message on every corpse — in a automobile left in the midst of visitors on a principal expressway. In 2022, authorities stated gunmen “executed” 9 individuals in an assault on a home in Atlixco.
Spiraling violence, a lot of it linked to drug trafficking and gangs, has seen greater than 450,000 individuals murdered in Mexico since 2006.
On Monday, gunmen killed 5 members of the identical household in a home in a suburb of Acapulco, the previous beachside playground of the wealthy and well-known now blighted by legal violence, prosecutors stated.
Two different individuals have been wounded within the assault within the southern state of Guerrero, which has endured years of bloodshed linked to turf wars between drug cartels.
On Friday, a neighborhood chief of the Mexican folks saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal determine. Two different individuals have been killed and eight injured within the assault within the metropolis of Leon, in Guanajuato state.
