Two more dead in Acapulco, reports the LA Times, bringing the number of “narco-violence” deaths to 200. Police officer Raymundo Leyva was shot 11 times during the gang-like battle.

“I thought after the first funerals that would be it, but there’s been so many more,” said Alberto Lopez Rosas, Acapulco’s mayor.

Nine police officers have been killed this year in the city. Only one was killed last year.

“We don’t have an elite police force here,” the mayor said. “Our officers are from the common people.”

Across Mexico, more than 2,000 people have been killed as two cartels battle over drug production areas and points of sale, known here as “plazas”: the Gulf cartel based in the border state of Tamaulipas and the Sinaloa cartel based in the Pacific state of the same name.

You can learn more about the drug war raging in Acapulco and across Mexico here.

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