Mexico ( Four Killed by Police, Gunmen in Southern Mexico )

MEXICO CITY – At least four people died of gunshot wounds in separate incidents in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, two in a clash involving student teachers and police in Iguala and two others when armed assailants opened fire on a bus on the outskirts of that city, authorities told Efe on Saturday.

In the first incident, police shot and killed two members of a group of student teachers from the training school in Ayotzinapa who had seized a bus and were forcibly removed from the vehicle, sources with the Guerrero state Attorney General’s Office said.

The student teachers later confirmed that figure in a press conference.

The second incident occurred outside Iguala on the highway linking that city with the state capital of Chilpancingo when an unknown armed group blocked the road and opened fire on a bus carrying members of a third-division soccer team, the state AG’s office said.

A 15-year-old boy and the driver of the vehicle were killed in that attack.

Local media, citing unofficial information, reported that a total of eight people were killed in the two incidents: three student teachers, three soccer players, the driver, and a woman who was riding in her vehicle at the time of the attack.

Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero denounced Friday night’s violence and pledged to bring the “full weight of the law” on those responsible for the deaths.