The fire kills 12 people who were imprisoned inside the Drug Rehabilitation Center in Mexico

A fire in a drug rehabilitation center in the Mexican state of violence Guanajuato On Sunday, the authorities said that 12 people were killed and at least three others were injured.

The fire broke out early on Sunday in the town of San Jose Eitorby, where the municipal government said it was still investigating the cause of the killer fire.

“We are expressing our solidarity with the families of those who were killed while trying to overcome addiction,” the municipal government said in a statement.

Experts were collecting evidence and meeting witnesses to prove “the causes of the tragic accident” The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Guangeato said.

Mexican media reported that the fire victims were imprisoned inside the rehabilitation center.

Narcotics rehabilitation centers in Mexico are often offensive, unorganized, unorganized. They were Similar attack targets in the past.

The industrial and agricultural state in Guanjato for years was the scene of the battle of bloody grass between Gilgsco new generation Cartel A local gang, Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. Guanajuato has the largest number of murders in any state in Mexico.

Only last month, investigators found 17 bodies While searching for missing persons in an abandoned house in Guanjato. A few days ago, seven people, including children, were, Release In the same area.

Mexican drug gangs have killed traders at the suspect level of competing gangs in rehabilitation facilities in the past. Officials also believe that the cartridges implement patients who refuse to join their ranks.

In April, the gunmen shot a drug rehabilitation clinic in the troubled state of Sendoa, killing at least nine people.

In July 2022, Six people were killed At a drug rehabilitation center near the Gawadalajara, West. Two years ago, armed men The Drug Rehabilitation Center stormed In the center of the city of Erbouato, 27 people were killed.

In 2010, 19 people were killed in an attack on the Rehabilitation Center in Chihua, a city in northern Mexico. More than ten other attacks occurred on such facilities in the contract between these massacres.

Agence France-Press contributed to this report.