Several dead in attack on Mexican officials

STORY: According to the state government, the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, Conrado Mendoza, was killed during the attack alongside his father, a former mayor.

Bullet holes blanketed the façade of the government building where the mayor held a meeting when gunmen opened fired from the main square.

Violence has spiked in Guerrero over the past decade as a growing number of criminal gangs vie for control of crops of opium poppies and for drug-trafficking routes.