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Acapulco, Mexico — Three separate armed attacks in Mexico on Monday left at least 22 people dead, including a dozen police officers, in regions across the country, authorities said.
A senior state security official was traveling in the convoy when it was attacked, authorities said, without confirming media reports that he was murdered along with police bodyguards. A group of gunmen attacked a brother of the mayor of the town of Tacambaro, according to the state prosecutor’s office.
Mexico is plagued by cartel-related bloodshed that has seen more than 420,000 people murdered since the government deployed the military in its war on drugs in 2006.Mexico has also registered more than 110,000 disappearances since 1962, most attributed to criminal organizations.
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