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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2005 
Grenade Attack on Police Post Injures Two Officers in Acapulco
 AP Wire Reports
| | Federal police officers carry out security checks on cars in the resort city of Acapulco. (Photo: Jesϊs Trigo) |
Acapulco, Mexico - Two men in a moving car lobbed a grenade at a state police post in this Pacific resort city Sunday, injuring two officers.
The attack was the latest in a string of violence against police in Acapulco this year. Grenade attacks and a series of shootings have killed at least eight officers and wounded six others.
Around 1 a.m., a gray Volkswagen sedan approached a police barricade outside Tres Vidas, a private hotel and residential development that has been a source of conflict since farmers who originally lived in the area began claiming they never agreed to sell their territory.
Two auxiliary police officers for Guerrero state, which includes Acapulco, 180 miles (290 kilometers) southwest of Mexico City, sought refuge behind barriers after a hand grenade exploded, shooting shrapnel in all directions, according to a statement released by the Guerrero government.
Officers Jesus Ibarra, 57, and 27-year-old Jose Luis Vazquez were seriously injured in the attack and taken by ambulance to an Acapulco hospital. The Tres Vidas police post is in the city's Diamante beach section, an upscale district popular with well-heeled tourists.
The assailants escaped moments after the attack and no arrests were made.
Recently, groups of peasants have stormed the area in and around Tres Vidas, seizing land they claim was stolen from them. Last week, farming leader Dagoberto Campos was released from prison on bond after being arrested for reoccupying land in the area.
On Friday, former residents of the Tres Vidas region led a march accusing Guerrero Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca of siding with business interests.
Following Sunday's attack, Acapulco police chief Roberto Abizaid ordered local officers to be on alert, instructing them to wear bulletproof vests.
In August, a grenade exploded at a police substation in the Puerto Marques neighborhood, damaging two patrol cars but causing no injuries. Another grenade was found unexploded outside.
A grenade was tossed at the same police post, southeast of central Acapulco, in February, ahead of Guerrero state elections. Three taxis were sprayed with shrapnel and one of their drivers was hospitalized.
That explosion came as part of three nearly simultaneous attacks across the city that killed three police officers and a teenage boy. |
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