No less than three individuals had been killed in a taking pictures and a subsequent chase by cops Saturday at a beachside restaurant in Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. The prosecutor's workplace in Guerrero state, the place Acapulco is positioned, stated two gunmen approached and killed two males at a beachside restaurant. Police then chased the attackers down the seashore as they had been "escaping in the direction of the ocean," officers stated.
Police killed one of many suspects and critically wounded the opposite. Video posted on social media and YouTube confirmed individuals operating down the seashore as gunshots rang out. Others appeared to take cowl behind tables or chairs.
The prosecutor's workplace posted two photographs from the scene, together with a photograph that seems to point out officers giving chase on the seashore as sunbathers watch the dramatic scene unfold subsequent to the water.
Authorities stated two 9mm pistols had been seized within the space.
The taking pictures comes simply days after the severed heads of six males had been reportedly found on high of a Volkswagen within the city of Chilapa de Alvarez, which can be in Guerrero state.
Beachside shootings have occurred earlier than in Acapulco, which has been stricken by gang violence since 2006.
In November, police stated gunmen pulled up in a ship and shot a person to dying on a well-liked seashore in Acapulco. The attackers then apparently fled within the boat.
On Mexico's Caribbean coast, there was a Nov. 4 shootout on a seashore in Puerto Morelos south of Cancun, involving a squad of armed males who left two alleged drug sellers lifeless. That daytime bloodshed despatched vacationers scrambling for canopy at two giant inns the place native drug gangs had been apparently competing for drug gross sales.
Throughout the nation, greater than 340,000 individuals have been killed in a wave of bloodshed for the reason that authorities deployed the military to combat drug cartels in 2006.
Earlier this month, 20 individuals had been killed at a venue used to host cockfights within the city of Las Tinajas, Michoacan state in Mexico. An American mom was among the many victims.
On Thursday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused well-liked TV exhibits of glamorizing the violent drug commerce.
He advised reporters the exhibits characteristic "gangs of drug traffickers, with actors, males, lovely girls, property, the most recent vehicles, jewellery, designer garments, energy."
However they ignore "the destruction particularly of younger individuals. And we're speaking about hundreds of deaths. In the US, it is a significant issue," he added, referring to victims of drug overdoses.
Lopez Obrador took workplace in 2018 championing a "hugs not bullets" technique to sort out violent crime at its roots by combating poverty and inequality with social packages, quite than with the military.
He has requested the U.S. to put money into regional financial growth as an alternative of sending helicopter gunships and different weapons to tackle drug traffickers.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.