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ACAPULCO, MEXICO — Three gunmen are dead following a shootout with Mexican army troops in the southern state of Guerrero.
State authorities say that police found two assault rifles, two pistols, a grenade and a bag of what appeared to be cocaine in the suspects’ vehicle.
Mexico has been hit by a rising wave of drug-fueled violence, and officials estimate that more than 5,300 people have died so far in 2008.
The Guerrero state public safety department said today that the shootout occurred Friday in a mountain area north of the state’s trademark resort of Acapulco.
A taxi driver in Acapulco was killed Friday by gunmen who fired at his car from a motorcycle on the city’s main boulevard.
