10 Bodies Found in Mexican Resort City

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Authorities found the bodies of seven men and three women in clandestine graves in this Pacific resort city, the attorney general of the southern state of Guerrero said Monday.

The remains were distributed among seven different graves on a single street in the Colonia Olimpica neighborhood, Miguel Angel Godinez told reporters.

Police, who were alerted to the presence of the bodies by an anonymous telephone tip, located the graves with the help of cadaver dogs, the attorney general said.

State, municipal and federal security forces cordoned off the street and barred media access.

Even as police were uncovering the bodies in Colonia Olimpica, five people died in separate violent incidents across the greater Acapulco area.

Before dawn, one man was found slain in the Miguel Aleman neighborhood and two other males were gunned down, while an incident during the afternoon left two people dead and another wounded.

Guerrero, which has long been plagued by organized crime, was rocked last September by the abduction and apparent murder of 43 students from a rural teachers college.