The fire kills 12 people who were locked inside the drug rehabilitation center in Mexico

A fire in a drug rehabilitation center in the Mexican state plagued with violence of Guanajuato He killed 12 people and wounded at least three others, authorities said on Sunday.

The fire exploded on Sunday morning in the city of San José Iturbe, where the municipal government said it was still investigating what the deadly fire caused.

“We express our solidarity with the families of those who have been killed while trying to overcome addictions,” said the municipal government in a statement, adding that it will help pay the funeral expenses of the murdered.

The experts were gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses to establish “the reasons for the tragic incident,” said Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office.

The Mexican media reported that the victims of the fire had been locked within the rehabilitation center.

The private drug rehabilitation centers of Mexico are often abusive, clandestine, not regulated and sub -financed. They have been the Similar attacks objectives In the past.

The industrial and agricultural state of Guanajuato has been the scene of a bloody grass battle between the Jalisco New Generation poster and a local gang, the Santa Rosa de Lima poster. Guanajuato has the greatest number of homicides of any state in Mexico.

Last month, the researchers found 17 bodies During a search for missing people in an abandoned house in Guanajuato. Days before that, seven people, including children, were Shooting In the same region.

The Mexican drug gangs have killed the alleged merchants at the level of rival gang streets that take refuge in the rehabilitation facilities in the past. Officials also believe that posters sometimes execute patients who refuse to join their ranks.

In April, armed men fired a drug rehabilitation clinic in the problematic state of Sinaloa, killing at least nine people.

In July 2022, Six people were shot dead in a drug rehabilitation center near the western Mexican city of Guadalajara. Two years before that, strongly armed men broke into a drug rehabilitation center in the central city of Irapuato and killed 27 people.

In 2010, 19 people were killed in an attack against a rehabilitation center in Chihuahua, a city in northern Mexico. More than a dozen other attacks against such facilities occurred in the decade among these massacres.

Agance France-Presse contributed to this report.

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