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Three people were killed, including two police officers, in a pursuit involving two shootouts and a grenade attack on the outskirts of Mexico City on Monday, local authorities said.
The three attacks took place in central Mexico state, in the metropolitan area of the sprawling capital of 19 million.
A local police officer and a civilian died in a first shootout between police and criminals, said Ramon Calzada, director of public security in Tultitlan, without elaborating on how it broke out.
Police pursued the remaining criminals into a seafood restaurant, from where they threw grenades at officers outside, killing one of them, Calzada added.
Police detained one suspect and the rest escaped in a car before another shootout broke out shortly afterwards, with nobody reported injured and seven suspects detained, he said.
Mexico is the scene of daily violence, mostly related to powerful drug gangs operating in the northern border areas, that has largely spared the capital.
