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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2006 
Police Discover Seven Corpses in Resort City
 Wire services - El Universal
| | A civil protection worker carries a young woman past a suspected drug gunman, who was shot dead by police, during a gunbattle in the centre of Acapulco June 15, 2006. The gunman was found to be carrying five grenades in his bag. (Reuters/Stringer) |
The bodies were found hours before an election rally for a presidential candidate.
Police found seven corpses in three locations in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Sunday, hours before a presidential candidate was scheduled to hold a campaign rally.
Four bullet-riddled bodies were dumped on a street in trash bags, officials from the Acapulco city police department said. The other three victims, found on two different streets, were apparently beaten to death.
Officials would not comment on a motive for the killings but there was no indication they were related to a rally scheduled for Acapulco later on Sunday by leftist presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The city, and the state of Guerrero where it is located, are controlled by López Obrador´s Democratic Revolution Party (PRD).
Acapulco has been hit by a wave of drug-related violence this year, with more than 25 execution-style killings.
In April, the heads of two police officers were left on a wall outside a city government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers. A sign nearby read: "So that you learn to respect."
Investigators say that drug gangs are fighting over Acapulco´s budding local market and its strategic location for smuggling narcotics up the coast and into the United States.
All five presidential candidates have promised to crack down on crime in the run-up to Mexico´s July 2 election.
Polls have shown López Obrador running about even with Felipe Calderón of President Vicente Fox´s conservative National Action Party (PAN). |
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