Six killed in Tijuana drug gang violence

TIJUANA, Mexico, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Five people died a Tijuana, Mexico, bar shooting and gunmen killed a man being treated at a hospital in drug-related violence this weekend, officials said.

Baja California authorities said three masked gunmen walked into the Bar Utopia in Tijuana Friday night and began firing AK-47 assault rifles inside, killing two men and a woman at the scene, while another man and a woman died later at a hospital, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Nine more people were reported injured in the night club, from which police recovered 99 spent shell casings.

Meanwhile, gunmen entered the intensive care unit of Hospital del Prado, a small facility a few miles from downtown Tijuana, and shot a patient to death, the Union-Tribune said.

The violence raised this year's death toll from drug-related killings in and around the border city of 1.3 million people to more than 685, officials said.