Ten men were shot and killed on Saturday when gunmen fired multiple gunshots on a drug rehabilitation center in the Mexican city of Irapuato, the government of Guanajuato state reports.
Guanajuato, a region in central Mexico, has become one of the principal epicenters of increasing gang violence which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised to quell.
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However, despite lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus outbreak, homicides continue to test record levels.
Meanwhile, police are also investigating the killing of three men shot dead in a separate attack on Saturday in the city of Celaya, southeast of Irapuato, the state government said.
This is not the first time Rehab centers have been targeted by criminal gangs waging turf wars for control of the drug business.
In September 2017, at least 14 people were killed and several wounded in an attack by suspected gangsters on a drug rehab center in the northern city of Chihuahua.
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