10 Shot Dead in Attack on Mexican Drug Rehab Center

A man looks inside of a rehab center in Tijuana, Mexico, where gunmen shot 13 people to death, on Oct. 25, 2010. Francisco Vega/AFP via Getty Images

MEXICO CITY—Ten men were killed on Saturday when gunmen opened fire on a drugs rehabilitation center in the Mexican city of Irapuato, the government of Guanajuato state said.

Guanajuato, a region in central Mexico, has become one of the principal flashpoints of surging gang violence which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised to quell.