Posted on 02/06/2007 12:22:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ACAPULCO, Mexico - More than a dozen armed assailants staged simultaneous attacks against two police stations in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday, killing at least seven officers.
The attacks took place before noon in two neighborhoods about nine miles north of the tourist zone, said Enrique Gil Mercado, special prosecutor for the attorney general's office in the state of Guerrero, which includes Acapulco.
Four officers were killed at the station in the Emiliano Zapata neighborhood, while three were killed in the Ciudad del Renacimiento neighborhood, Gil said.
About eight men armed with assault weapons participated in each attack. Gil said he did not immediately know how many people were injured.
All the attackers escaped, including one who fled on foot, and other city police stations were evacuated as a precaution, Formato 21 radio reported.
Acapulco has suffered a wave of killings as rival drug cartels fight over coastal smuggling routes and control over a burgeoning local drug market.
Um, don't they have gun restriction laws in Mexico?
What a sorry excuse for a country.
Messssico.
Aren't the police the drug runners?
With the reputation of the police in Mexico, I susect that this was little more than a falling out of crooks.
The barbarians are learning from the Arab barbarians. The world gets less and less secure every day.
yes, but they have rifles instead of slingshots in this town.
Another skirmish in the War on Drugs.
They probably ripped off the wrong cartel.
... nine miles north of the FORMER tourist zone.
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