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Five arrested in Mexico rehab killings

By Ray Gomez

Story Created: Sep 25, 2009

Story Updated: Sep 25, 2009

Authorities say they've arrested five suspects in two separate attacks on rehab clinics that left 27 people dead.

The suspects range in age from 22 to 27.

Police say they have confessed to working with one of Mexico’s most wanted men, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, leader of the violent Sinaloa Drug Cartel.

Suspected drug hitmen killed ten patients at a rehab clinic in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso on September fifth.

A similar attack took place a few days earlier when hooded gunmen killed 17 patients at another clinic in the same city.

The five suspects have been implicated in those crimes, as well an attack on a bar in Ciudad Juarez last month that left eight people dead.