2 arrested in attacks on police in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) - Two suspects have been arrested in this weekend's coordinated attacks in at least 10 Mexican cities that killed three federal police and two soldiers, federal authorities said.

One attacker was killed in a shootout with police during the arrests Sunday in Michoacan state, said the federal Secretariat for Public Security.

In addition to the five deaths Saturday, 18 federal officers were wounded, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing federal police official Rodolfo Cruz Lopez.

The attacks were in retribution for the capture early Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, a high-ranking member of La Familia Michoacan drug cartel, Cruz said.

Cartel members first attacked the federal police station in Morelia to try to gain freedom for Rueda, the public security office said. When that failed, the drug gangs attacked police installations in other Michoacan cities: Zitacuaro, Zamora, Lazaro Cardenas, Apatzingan, La Piedad and Huetamo.

Other rifle and grenade attack took place in Guerrero and Guanajuato states, both of which border Michoacan, but no one was injured.