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19 killed in Mexican drug rehabilitation centre shooting

AT LEAST 30 gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation centre in a Mexican border state capital and opened fire, killing 19 men and wounding four people.

By The Newsroom
Published 12th Jun 2010, 20:55 BST
Updated 12th Jun 2010, 21:06 BST

Gunmen also killed 20 people in another drug-plagued northern city.

The killings came just weeks after authorities discovered 55 bodies in an abandoned silver mine, which are presumed to be victims of the country's drug violence.

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The bullet-riddled bodies of 18 men and two women were found yesterday in five different parts of Ciudad Madero, a city in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, where violence has surged this year amid a turf battle between the Gulf cartel and its former ally, the Zetas gang of hitmen.