Original Article Posted on Sun, Apr. 23, 2006email thisprint this Assailants kill police chief in Pacific Mexican state ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY - Assailants ambushed and shot dead the police chief of a town in the Pacific State of Guerrero, which has been hit by a wave of drug-related bloodshed this year, officials said Saturday. Fidel Arellano, chief police of Altamirano, about 200 km (125 miles) miles) southwest of Mexico, was gunned down as he drove in his car early Saturday, said Rodolfo Flores, a spokesman for Guerrero state police. Arellano's bodyguard was injured in the attack, he said. Guerrero has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations and killings of police officers. On Thursday, the decapitated heads of two police officers were dumped in front of a government building in this Pacific coast resort of Acapulco in what appeared to be the revenge for the recent killing of four drug traffickers by police. Federal investigators link the violence in Guerrero to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.