<div><p>Five police were killed and three hurt in an overnight grenade attack in Mexico's western Jalisco state, while 13 others died in attacks elsewhere in the country, officials said Thursday.</p><p>The deaths included six in the southern Oaxaca State, relatively untouched by suspected drug-related violence in which almost 3,500 have died so far this year.</p><p>The Jalisco police officers were carrying out a "routine check of a suspect car when two other cars drove up, from where (the attackers) fired shots and threw two grenades," killing five, said a police officer from Lagos de Moreno.</p><p>The three survivors were seriously injured and transferred to local hospitals, and more than 1,000 bullet shells lay at the gas station where the attack took place, he said.</p><p>Suspected drug gang members shot dead five men in Oaxaca late Wednesday, including two in the seaside resort of Puerto Escondido, state officials said Thursday.</p><p>Police found the burned remains of another person some 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Oaxaca city.</p><p>Meanwhile in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico's most violent, seven died, including a municipal official and a woman, and eight others were kidnapped in a small town bordering the United States, the attorney general's office said.</p><p>A government crackdown on drug-related violence, initiated by President Felipe Calderon almost two years ago and including the deployment of 36,000 troops, has showed no sign of stopping the killings.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=34654597&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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