Two patients were being taken to a Ciudad Juarez facility for kidney treatment, but according to Rosendo Gaytan, a spokesman for the Mexican Social Security Institute in Ciudad Juarez, a pickup truck carrying gunmen then intentionally crashed into the ambulance, forcing it to stop. The attackers then got out of the truck and opened fire on the ambulance.
The ambulance driver was shot in the head and appeared to be the target of the attack. The two patients as well as a woman who was accompanying them were also killed.
Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, is the site of a war between the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels and saw some 3,100 homicides last year. Killings have gradually decreased but violence remains high.
Authorities reported six other slayings Wednesday in addition to the ambulance attack.
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