24 die in squad assault nearby Acapulco Focus on Mexico

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Thirteen people were killed in and around the Mexican beach review of Acapulco, with 4 victims found beheaded, security officials said. Another gunbattle in the state left eleven people dead.

Five of those killed were military officers whose night unit was ambushed by gunmen early Saturday in Tuncingo, a farming areathe hinterland of the Pacific seashore review city.

The bullet-riddled bodies of eight alternative men were detected in opposite areas around Acapulco in strong drug-related killings, officials said. Two of the decapitated men were founda scenic highway packaged with nightclubs.

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The assault occurred as thousands of U.S. college students proposed nearing in the area for open break.

ShootoutMore assault assumingly associated to drug flared after Saturday in Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, with Mexican soldiers exchanging glow with gunmen, inhabitant journal Reforma reported. One infantryman and 10 gunmen were killed in the shootout in the locale of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, the journal said.

Valentin Diaz, executive of the Guerrero state inquisitive police, pronounced the gunfight erupted in the core of the day in the core of the locale as it was full of bystanders.

Several cartels are fighting over drug-dealing territory and trafficking routes in Guerrero. Gang assault occurs roughly each day in the state, but Saturday was scarcely bloody.

Any resurgence in assault would be bad headlines for the countrys tourism industry. Last June, at slightest eighteen people were killed in a shootout in between drug gangs and soldiers in Acapulco, that is home to around a million people.

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President Felipe Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of infantry to Guerrero and alternative drug-trafficking hotspots opposite Mexico in an bid to base out cartels. Gang assault has surged given the crackdown began 3 years ago, claiming some-more than 17,900 lives.

Farther to the south in the state of Chiapas, that borders Guatemala, a explosive device blast inside a car killed one man and bleeding another. State prosecutors pronounced the passed man was holding the arms when it exploded.

Investigators hold the plant belonged to the Zetas drug squad and had been about to throw the explosive device at sovereign military offices in the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez.