The bodies of at least seven people were detected in various sectors in the city of Acapulco, a port in southern Mexico that has been hit hard for years by the scourge of organized crime, the authorities announced.

Three bodies were found last Saturday night, in the trunk of a taxi, and the remaining four yesterday Sunday in different districtsaccording to police reports, while explosive devices were also hurled against a police station yesterday.

“Taking into account the events of the last few hours”, it was decided to “strengthen our operational development in various sectors and priority zones” in Acapulco, in cooperation with the armed forces and the National Guard, the secretariat (s.s. ministry) said. of Public Security of the state of Guerrero (south) in a press release he made public.

The federal police “intensified their operational actions and video surveillance in public transport, markets and high-crime districts,” he added.

Later the same source said that unknown persons threw three explosive devices vs. police station in Acapulco — two neutralized, third neutralized. It was not specified what kind of mechanisms were involved.

The famous resort town on Mexico’s Pacific coast, which suffered extensive damage in October from a powerful hurricane, is among the areas hardest hit by the criminal activity of drug cartels. In 2023, some 1,890 murders were committed in it.

In late June, the bodies of five men, some with their hands bound, were found on a road leading to Acapulco.

On June 17, Salvador Villalba, elected mayor of the city of Copala in the June 2 election, was assassinated on a highway.

Violence attributed to organized crime gangs in Mexico has claimed the lives of some 450,000 people, with more than 100,000 missing, since late 2006, when then-president Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) declared a so-called “war” against of drugs, deploying the armed forces inside the country to crack down on the cartels.