Doctor killed in crossfire in Mexico hospital shootout

By Associated Press
9:40am Sep 30, 2023

Hitmen stormed a hospital in northern Mexico in a bid to kill a patient but they clashed with other gunmen already inside, sparking a gun battle that left four people dead, including a doctor apparently caught in the crossfire, police said.

Three gunmen tried to storm the hospital in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan near midnight Thursday to carry out a hit, but two of them were killed in a gunbattle with armed people already inside the hospital, state police said.

A doctor was killed in the exchange of fire, as apparent “collateral damage,” state Police Chief Gerardo Mérida said. A third assailant was wounded.

Mérida did not say why there were people with weapons inside the private hospital, or whether they were bodyguards for a person being treated there. He said both groups were “criminals.”
“They tried to carry out a supposed execution inside, and there was an exchange of gunfire,” he said.

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