Tierra
Colorado, Guerrero – Bullets ripped into a car carrying a load of
tourists to an Acapulco beach when the driver refused to stop at a
makeshift roadside checkpoint located on the highway between Mexico
City and the cliffside tourist Mecca.
Slightly
wounded, one of their number got medical aid only after he got
further down the road from a scene of bloody insurrection that is
sweeping this area after more than 1,500 vigilantes, who call
themselves community police, seized the director of security and 12
police officers in raids on their homes.
They
confiscated a number of assault weapons and high-powered sniper
rifles in a search of the police chief's home and car.
The
attack came in retaliation for the killing of a citizen police leader named Guadalupe Quinones
Carbajal, allegedly by police acting at the direction of organized
crime groups.
In
an earlier attack, vigilantes burst into a lounge in the Acapulco
area and killed federal police during a raid that left a half dozen
dead.
“We
have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with
impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities,” said
Bruno Placido Valerio, according to news reports.
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