| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2009 
Grenade Attack Wounds 5 in Mexican Beach Town
 Associated Press
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Acapulco, Mexico — Assailants in an SUV hurled two grenades at a police station in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo last weekend, wounding one officer and four civilians.
Police and soldiers stepped up patrols and set up extra checkpoints after the attack in the popular beach town north of Acapulco, according to the Guerrero state Public Safety Department.
Three taxi drivers, a woman and a policeman were hurt
Grenade attacks have become a fixture in Mexico's brutal cartel-related violence. Last week, five civilians and an officer were wounded in a grenade assault on a police patrol in western Michoacan state.
In central Mexico, gunmen wielding AK-47s opened fire on two restaurants Saturday, killing two people. The first attack occurred in the town of Acelia and the second in at a highway eatery south of Mexico City.
Police were trying to determine the motive and whether the two attacks were related.
Gang violence is surging in Mexico despite the deployment of 45,000 soldiers across the country to root out drug cartels. Beheadings, attacks on police and shootings in clubs and restaurants are a daily occurrence in some regions.
Last year, 6,000 people died in violence related to organized crime.
Federal police, meanwhile, arrested a man suspected of directing drug dealing in Mexico City suburbs for the Beltran Leyva drug cartel. Gerardo Gonzalez Benavides was arrested Friday at a Mexico City shopping mall and was being questioned Saturday, the Attorney General's Office said. |
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