Five dead in armed attack in Acapulco, Mexico

The public prosecutor’s office in the state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said in a statement that it was investigating the attack that left four men and a woman dead and another person injured.

On Tuesday, authorities said 10 bodies had been found scattered around the once-glamorous resort town that has been rocked by violence linked to organized crime.

According to the local public security bureau, six of the bodies were left on an avenue near a market on Monday evening.

Media in the city reported that the bodies were thrown from a car.

Three more people were killed in a shooting in the Emiliano Zapata neighborhood, and another person was shot in the tourist part of the city.

Acapulco was once a playground for the rich and famous, but over the past decade it has lost its shine as foreign tourists have been frightened away by the bloodshed that has turned it into one of the most violent cities in the world.

The state of Guerrero is one of the worst affected by drug trafficking in Mexico, with disputes between cartels leading to 1,890 murders in the state in 2023.

Since the government of then-President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against the drug cartels in 2006, more than 450,000 people have been murdered in the country due to escalating criminal violence.

Criminal gangs are not only involved in drug trafficking, but also in other illegal activities such as human smuggling, extortion and fuel theft.

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