17 patients killed in shooting at Mexican drug rehab center

Gunmen shot and killed 17 patients and wounded two others in a drug rehabilitation center in northern Mexico late yesterday, according to a report on www.edition.cnn.com.



Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said authorities believe a rival drug gang attacked the men at the El Aviane rehab facility.



\"At the very least, it was one organized crime group thinking that another group was operating in that place,\" Reyes told CNN.



Last night\'s shootings, he said, are similar to an attack at a drug facility in March that left 20 patients dead.



A Mexican civic group said last week that Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, had the most slayings per capita in 2008 of any city in the world.