At least 14 men were killed in a shoot-out between rival drug gangs in the northern Durango state, authorities said on Saturday.

The gangsters were shot dead when they battled for turfs in a remote mountain village in Durango state, one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions.

Some 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderonin launched an anti-drug campaign in December 2006.