Mexico City: At least 12 police officers who had been sent to investigate beheadings of 10 people in southern Guerrero state were killed in Mexico, media reported on Monday.
According to reports, six state and six local officers were killed on a road leading out of the town of Teloloapan while eleven officers were wounded.
The attack on the officers occurred as they were traveling in six patrol pickups and searching for the bodies of seven men and three women whose severed heads were dumped outside the town’s slaughterhouse earlier Sunday.
Teloloapan is near the area shared by both Guerrero and Michoacan states and known as Tierra Caliente for its steamy weather.
The region is a violent, mountainous zone that has been used by drug traffickers to grow marijuana and opium poppies for years. It has been plagued by drug violence in recent years as drug gangs fight to control the area. Authorities say La Familia has been severely battered in the fighting.
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