Beheadings, Torture, Machine Gun Fire Make for a Bad Weekend in Mexico's Guerrero State Fox News Latino
go to original November 21, 2016

In Acapulco, surfing has gained popularity among youths in neighborhoods worn down by poverty and merciless drug violence that have turned the resort city into Mexico's murder capital. (AFP News Agency)

The southern Mexican state of Guerrero, where 43 teachers’ college students disappeared two years ago, continues to spiral into violence and disorder.

At 11 p.m. Sunday night, according to Mexico’s Proceso newssite, the decapitated bodies of eight men were found on a road outside Tixtla, bearing the signs of having been tortured.

In Acapulco, the largest city in Guerrero which has been suffering through an especially violent year, 10 people were gunned down in separate incidents over the weekend, two of them members of the Mexican Marines.

According to authorities, the Marines were off-duty when they were machine-gunned to death in a section that’s considered one of the most dangerous in the seaside city.

Late last week, Mexican federal forces arrested the alleged leader of a band of assassins Acapulco, and in the state's mountainous interior 30 armed men kidnapped at least a dozen people, government officials said.

The government identified the arrested man only as "Benito N." and stated he was responsible for a significant amount of the bloodshed in Acapulco. A statement released late Friday said his arrest was one of the state's top security priorities.

Local media said the suspect was the head of assassins for the local arm of the Beltrán Lleyva cartel.

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Related: Mexico Arrests Alleged Cartel Assassin Leader in Acapulco (Associated Press)

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