Thirteen retirees have been shot dead at a detoxification centre near the Mexican border city of Tijuana, police say.
The reason for Sunday's attack was not immediately known, a police official told the AFP news agency, but it was apparently linked to the drug war that has claimed thousands of lives this year.
Elsewhere in the country, a mother and her two teenage children were killed in Torreon in the northern Coahuila state, when men in vans opened fire on a group of police patrol cars. The officers and soldiers returned fire.
It was not clear who fired the shots that killed the bystanders, but the state attorney general's office said it was investigating and expressed condolences to the victims' families.
"Because they were driving where the shooting took place, a 14-year-old boy, his 18-year-old sister and their 47-year-old mother were killed," the office said.
None of the criminals or the police officers were wounded in the firefight and no arrests have been made, officials said.
Coahuila has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas drug gang.
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