The attacks Sunday night targeted local federal police headquarters in a beachside tourist quarter and a hotel across town where many of its agents are lodged.
The city’s coastal boulevard was temporarily closed due to the firefight, and restaurants, bars and stores sealed their doors with customers inside to avoid getting caught up in the violence.
Two security officials said an attacker was killed and his body recovered in a vehicle that was left behind, while an officer was wounded in the leg. They were not authorised to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Guerrero state attorney general Javier Olea told journalists the attacks may have been a response to recent detentions of drug cartel leaders but did not give more details.
However one of the security officials told The Associated Press that a hypothesis links the violence to the capture hours earlier of the suspected local leader of a group working for the cartel of the Beltran Leyva brothers.
Elsewhere in the state, a journalist was gunned down at the door of his home in the colonial city of Taxco on Monday morning.
Francisco Pacheco Beltran, 49, a print and radio correspondent and editor of the newspaper Foro de Taxco, was shot in the head and chest by an unknown assailant as he was preparing to take his children to school, according to an official at the state prosecutor’s office who was not authorised to discuss it publicly.
It was not immediately known if authorities suspect he was targeted due to his work.
Guerrero is one of the hottest flashpoints for drug violence in Mexico.
Acapulco, once a favorite among Hollywood stars and legions of American tourists, has seen a rash of killings blamed on warring gangs in recent years.
The violence has also spilled into neighbourhoods frequented by travelers, including the killings of roving vendors at the beach and bags containing dismembered bodies that were dumped near the seaside promenade.
In 2015, the city of about 700,000 residents registered 902 killings. In January-February of this year there were 139 homicides, higher than during the same two months last year but lower than at the peak of violence last summer.
Earlier this month the US government prohibited its workers from traveling to Acapulco in response to the violence. Most of the surrounding state of Guerrero is also off-limits for US employees.
Correspondent: Oscar
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