Mexican cops find 2 bodies on road near Acapulco

Police found the bound bodies of two men on a highway just outside Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday.

The Public Safety Department in the southern state of Guerrero said the two men had been shot in the head and a handwritten message was left near the bodies.

The body of a third man was found in Ciudad Altamirano, an inland city in Guerrero near the border with neighboring Michoacan state.

That body was missing its head and limbs, which had apparently been cut off. A handwritten message - a common tactic of Mexico's drug gangs - was also found near the body. Police seldom reveal the contents of such messages.

Also Saturday, police in northern Mexico reported that one officer was killed and two others wounded when they were ambushed in Nogales, which is across the border from the Arizona city of the same name.

The police department in Sonora state said its officers were responding to an apparently false report of a robbery at a beer store when gunmen opened fire on them Friday. It said the assailants apparently used the crime report to lure the officers into the ambush.

The wounded officers were listed in stable condition at a local hospital.