6 spectators who were killed in the crossfire by armed clashes near the Resort City of Acapulco

Cilliffs between two armed groups left six civilians near the Mexican crime on the beach side of Acapulco, the authorities said on Tuesday.

The violence broke out in a city named Kilometro 30 on a motorway to Mexico city on Monday evening, the public prosecutor's office of the state of Guerrero said in a statement.

The victims were five men and an older woman who was caught in the crossfire, said the municipal commissioner Adan Casarrubias. Three people were injured.

Soldiers and police found weapons in a armored vehicle in the city, in which several cars were set on fire.

Armed men in at least three vehicles were involved in the confrontation that frightened the residents, said Casarrubias.

“Even if it is with pans, sticks or whatever, we will fight for our city,” he said.

Officials said a long -term weapon, magazines, cartridges, seven vehicles (including an armored truck), tire control weapons and five improvised explosive devices were confiscated during the examination.

Once penetrating the beach resort that is now dirty by violence

In his heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Acapulco was a playground of the rich and famous. Today, the city, which is once known as “the pearl of the Pacific”, is devoured by violence associated with drug cartels.

The administrator of a Facebook message page was shot down in Acapulco on Thursday.

LSt December, a judge was shot In his car in front of an Acapulco court.

In May 2024, 10 bodies were found scattered in the city. A month earlier was the head of the traffic police shot to death As an attacker on a street relatively far away from the beaches of the resort.

In February 2024, two men were found dead on a popular beach in Acapulco, and the public prosecutor said that the men had “signs of torture around their neck”. In the same month, three people were shot on the beaches in Acapulco, one of armed men who arrived and escaped – – – On board a boat.

Acapulco is part of the condition of GuerreroOne of the worst affected by drug trafficking in the country. Among six states in Mexico, the US State Department advises the Americans to completely avoid crimes and violence.