Twenty-eight people were killed in a shootout among suspectedrival drug gangs on a remote highway in the Mexican Pacific Coaststate of Nayarit, authorities said.
Police found 28 bodies strewn around 10 abandoned cars on afederal highway,tera gold, Nayarit's state prosecutor's office said in astatement. Four others were wounded.
Officers found the crime scene after following up on a reportedkidnapping, the statement said.
More than 38,000 people have been killed in Mexico sincePresident Felipe Calderon launched an army-backed crackdown on drugcartels four years ago, sparking bloody criminal turf wars andstreet battles with federal security forces.
Mexican police recently captured a suspected drug enforcerblamed for ordering the murder of the son of a prominent poet,which helped prompt national protests against the government's drugwar strategy.
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