Sunday, December 1, 2019

Mexican hospitals under siege


Hard to believe, but you aren't safe even in a hospital. The Daily Mail reports on the latest attack, in which 7 men armed with rifles barged into a hospital and kidnapped a patient. The victim was cut to pieces and strewn about a roadway.
The chilling moment a group of armed 'hitmen’ stormed a Mexican hospital and hauled away a patient on a stretcher, who was later murdered and dismembered, has been captured in shocking surveillance footage. 
Heavily armed with assault rifles, the seven masked assailants - believed to be members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel - are seen ransacking rooms in the General Hospital of Salvatierra in Guanajuato, southern Mexico, on November 21.
This was not the only incident:
However, he wasn’t the cartel’s only victim, as police confirmed two other armed groups stormed the Juventino Rosas and Apaseo el Grande hospitals in identical attacks
In the latter incidents, a group of heavily-armed assailants burst through the doors of the two hospitals and opened fire, kidnapping one man and later killing them, in addition to critically injuring a second, named as Julio Cesar, who survived.  
The cartels aren't bound by the Geneva conventions, so hospitals are not off limits. (In fairness, the USA is also fond of bombing hospitals, so they can't point fingers).

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