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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2007 
Drug Cartel May Be Behind Tijuana Hospital Attack
 nbcsandiego.com
| | Police and army troops were called to the hospital. Patients and hospital staff were evacuated to a recreation center across the street and nearby streets were closed off. |
Tijuana, Mexico - Mexican authorities said they believe the four masked gunmen who stormed a Tijuana hospital Wednesday and fought gun battles with police that claimed three lives were hit men for the city's Arellano Felix drug cartel.
Two of the four were taken into custody yesterday after gun battles that began when police stopped a truck carrying hit men planning an attack on members of the rival Sinaloa drug cartel, which authorities now refer to as the Milenio cartel.
A public safety official, Patricio Patino, corrected earlier reports that six- to eight assailants had been involved in the hospital attack, which he says was aimed at freeing a fellow criminal arrested and wounded in an earlier shootout.
Patino did not explain, however, why only two of the suspects had been arrested or if the others had escaped.
At one point during the standoff as many as 20 people were held hostage.
Officials said 60 patients and staff members evacuated during the 4-hour standoff. |
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