MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ten people died and 20 were wounded in Mexico on Wednesday during a gunfight in the troubled southwestern state of Guerrero, where 43 students disappeared and were presumed murdered last year.
A spokesman for the Guerrero state prosecutor's office said that the shootout between armed civilians occurred in Tlacotepec, a mountainous area where drug traffickers grow poppies used to make heroin.
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