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Four Mexican soldiers are killed by an improvised explosive device in a trap near Aguililla, Michoacán, Mexico. The soldiers were inspecting a camp, likely used by cartel members, when they stepped on an anti-personnel mine set in the underbrush.
2024-03-1

Hurricane Otis becomes the most intense landfalling cyclone in the Eastern Pacific basin on record after making landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, and killing at least 27 people in the city, as a category 5 hurricane with 1-minute sustained winds of 165 mph.
2023-10-25

Hurricane Rick loses strength as it moves farther inland in Mexico. The states that are most affected are Michoacán and Guerrero, especially the seaside city of Acapulco in Guerrero. Other states such as Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit open shelters ahead of potential heavy rain.
2021-10-25

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck just outside the tourist city of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, killing at least one person and leaving more than 1.6 million without electricity.
2021-09-7

Eleven people are killed in La Concepción, Mexico, near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, following violent clashes involving gunmen, a community police force, and state police in the southern state of Guerrero.
2018-01-7

Ten people are killed and two are injured in a car crash near Acapulco, Mexico.
2017-12-30

Mexican authorities say two suspected thieves died after a mob beat them and four others in Tlatlauquitepec, Puebla, Mexico.
2017-08-28

Three people die in a shootout between Mexican security forces and gunmen in the resort of Acapulco.
2011-04-4

Mexico's youngest police chief, Marisol Valles García of the town of Práxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua, seeks asylum to the United States after receiving death threats.
2011-03-8

Drug-related violence kills 24 people in Mexico in 24 hours, 13 of them in the city of Acapulco.
2010-03-14