MEXICO CITY – Gunmen killed five young people in Acapulco, a city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, prosecutors said Tuesday.The bodies of the victims, who ranged in age from 20 to 25, were found inside a house in the Pacific resort city’s Jardin-Mangos district, the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office said.
Federal Police officers and army troops were deployed in the area to assist AG’s office crime scene investigators.
The investigation to “locate and arrest those who committed the multiple murder” is ongoing, the AG’s office said.
At least 12 people have been murdered in Guerrero since last Friday.
A conservative National Action Party, or PAN, politician and three students are among the victims, and more than 50 other students are missing.
State officials blamed the attacks on municipal police officers and organized crime groups.
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