The bodies of 11 murdered victims have been found in the problematic state of the southern Mexican of southern Guerrero, fiscal and local media said on Wednesday.
The prosecutors said the bodies were discovered on Tuesday night in the municipality of Tooanapa, while the local media reported the token clashes of murder between the crime gangs organized rivals.
GuerrillaLocated on the southern Pacific coast of Mexico, there is one of the six of 32 states that represent almost half or the homicides of Mexico, a large part of them linked to drug trafficking. Guerrero is among the regions of Mexico that the United States Department of State advises to avoid, citing crime and vilipidity. Disputes between posters led 1,890 murders in the state in 2023.
In November, the police said they found 11 bodies, including two or minors, abandoned by a road in Guerrero. The previous month, the mayor of the state capital Chilpancingo It was waxed A few days after assuming the position. After the murder, four other mayors asked the federal authorities to protection and a former prosecutor and local police officer was arrested In relation to death.
Violence in Guerrero reached such unprecedented levels that last year, Roman Catholic bishops announced that they had helped organize a truce elsewhere in the state between two drug cartels at war.
Guerrero is also the home of popular beach resorts such as Acapulco and Zihuatanejo. Last May, 10 bodies were found Dispersed by Acapulco, which has bones wrapped by the violence linked to the posters.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
