Mexico ( Five Dead in Attack on Mexican Police Chief’s Home )

CULIACAN, Mexico – Five people died in an attack on the home of the police chief in a village in western Mexico, a source in the Sinaloa state Attorney General’s Office told Efe on Thursday.

The incident took place in Casas Viejas, a community within the municipality of Concordia.

Police chief Alejandro Guerrero Reyes was killed, along with his two brothers and two other males, including a 15-year-old.

A group of hooded men brandishing heavy caliber weapons arrived in the village aboard a pickup truck and asked for directions to the police chief’s home, according to the official report.

The gunmen went to the residence, burst in and began shooting at everyone present.

Police and army troops who showed up after the attack found and disarmed a live grenade left behind by the assailants.

The state that gave birth to the first generation of Mexican drug lords is suffering through a period of heightened violence as rival groups jockey for supremacy following the arrest in February of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman.

Sinaloa was among Mexico’s five most-dangerous states in 2013, with 41 homicides for every 100,000 residents.