2023-09-30 01:54:00
The events occurred in Sinaloa, one of the states most affected by violence in Mexico, where several cartels compete for control of the territory.
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Five people, including a doctor, died in a shooting that broke out at a private hospital in the Mexican state of Sinaloa (northwest), local authorities reported this Friday. A report from the state prosecutor’s office indicates that the events occurred around midnight on Thursday, when gunmen broke into the clinic in the city of Culiacán, the state capital.
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A hospital doctor, who was hit by bullets, and two alleged attackers died at the scene. A third gunman was wounded and was taken to a public hospital for treatment, but there, according to authorities, he managed to grab a police officer’s gun and shoot himself in the head, killing himself. A woman who was at the clinic was also hit by gunfire. She was taken to the Red Cross, where she later died as a result of her injuries.
According to local media, the attackers broke into the hospital seeking to kill a man who had been admitted with a gunshot wound, but there were other armed individuals inside and the confrontation broke out.
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Línea Directa, a Sinaloa news portal, released a video allegedly from the security cameras of the private hospital where the shooting took place. In the images you can see men carrying weapons and running through the hallways. An individual is also seen who would have died in the fray.
The video also shows the moment in which another of the aggressors falls wounded with a weapon in hand, which was then picked up and taken away by another of the gunmen. Elsewhere you can see doctors trying to protect themselves and at the same time provide care to his partner who was hit by bullets and died at the scene.
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Sinaloa, where one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico operates, has for decades been the scene of armed confrontations between rival groups or clashes between criminals and security forces.
Mexico has more than 420,000 dead and some 100,000 missing, most attributed to conflicts between criminal organizations, since the launch of a controversial military anti-drug offensive in December 2006.
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