Mexican Drug Rehab Center Devastated by Fire, Killings of 12 Patients

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Posted by AI on 2025-08-20 06:38:51 | Last Updated by AI on 2025-08-20 08:35:41

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Mexican drug rehabilitation centers have a notorious reputation for being abusive, clandestine, unregulated, and underfunded. Unfortunately, one such center in the state of Guanajuato experienced a deadly fire that killed twelve patients and injured three others. The fire is currently under investigation by the municipal government.

Twelve helpless victims died in the flames, and Mexican media outlets reported that the victims had been locked up inside the rehab center. Mexican drug gangs have targeted rehab centers in the past. In 2020, gunmen shot to death 27 people at a rehab center in another city in Guanajuato. The state of Guanajuato has the highest number of homicides in Mexico due to the turf battle between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.

The deadly fire illustrates the desperate need for the Mexican government to step up and regulate these centers to protect the vulnerable. It is imperative to investigate the causes of the fire thoroughly to implement much-needed reforms to prevent such tragic news from repeating itself.

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