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Drug Gang Hitmen Blamed in Hospital Raid

Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:52:22 PM
By LUIS PEREZ

Patients and staff are evacuated after gunmen entered the Tijuana General Hospital following a shoot out between police and gunmen on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, in Tijuana, Mexico. Police and soldiers battled gunmen who seized hostages at a hospital in violence that left at least two people dead, officials said. (AP Photo/David Maung)TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - The gunmen who stormed a hospital and battled police in this border city were hit men for the city's Arellano Felix drug cartel, authorities said Thursday.

Two of the four were taken into custody after gunbattles Wednesday in which three people died, according to Patricio Patino, assistant federal secretary of public safety. He did not say what happened to the other two.

Officials earlier reported that six to eight men had attacked the hospital to free a fellow criminal who had been arrested and was undergoing medical treatment.


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