Gunmen attack Mexican drug rehab center killing 24

Women react outside a drug rehabilitation facility where assailants killed several people, according to Guanajuato state police, in Irapuato, Mexico. [Reuters]

Gunmen killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation facility in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, police said on Wednesday, underlining the government’s challenge in fulfilling its pledge to stop gang violence.

Police in the city in Guanajuato state said the unidentified attackers also shot and wounded seven people in what was the second attack at an Irapuato rehab center in the past month.