By Juan Antonio Rodríguez and Lourdes Cardenas
El Paso Times
JUAREZ, Mexico — Four people, including a medic and his partner, were shot to death during an ambush in Jucrez on Wednesday, officials said.
Another person was seriously wounded during the shooting.
The ambulance worker, his partner and three women were riding from Casas Grandes to a clinic in Jucrez when several gunmen opened fire against them in front of Mexican Oil Company (Petrcleos Mexicanos) facilities, a federal government agency, at Plazuela de Acuca street and Casas Grandes Highway around 1:30 p.m., a government spokesperson said.
At least two shooters were involved in the attack, since police recovered.
The medic and his partner, both in their 30s, and two female patients, one of them in her 40s and another in her 60s, died inside the unit. A third patient, in her late 40s, was wounded, Ruvalcaba said.
The three patients were being taken to a Social Security clinic in Jucrez, known by its acronym IMSS, for dialysis treatments when the attack occurred, Ruvalcaba added.
All four victims have yet to be identified and no arrests have been made.
On Tuesday afternoon, a teenage boy and two men were shot to death.
According to state police, all three victims were riddled with bullets in the middle of Ejido Parritas and Manuel cvila Camacho streets in the Manuel Valdez neighborhood.
Those victims were identified as Josc Alejandro Fierro Holgucn, 14, Sergio Moreno Coronado, 34, and Oziel Enrique Rinccn Llanas, 18. State police recovered 11 bullet casings.
Also on Tuesday night, an unidentified woman was found shot to death at Camino Real Highway and Indio Jercnimo Street in the Campesina neighborhood northwest of Jucrez, officials said.
The victim, in her late 20s, was shot four times in the head at point-blank range.
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