Overview

• Local reports say armed men with assault rifles opened fire at close range near the hospital’s emergency area.
• The attack occurred Friday night outside Hospital Civil on Avenida Álvaro Obregón near the Gabriel Leyva neighborhood in Culiacán.
• Municipal police and state prosecutors responded, cordoned off the site and opened an investigation.
• No arrests had been reported, and emergency crews assisted the injured as officials secured the scene.
• Early local identifications name two of the dead as Jorge and Rubén, and an injured man as José Ramón, 39.