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ACAPULCO, Mexico, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): At least
24 people, some bearing signs of torture, were killed in a series of incidents over the weekend in Mexico’s violence-plagued southern state of Guerrero, officials have said.
Faced with an uptick in bloodshed the state governor held an “urgent
session” with army commanders and federal and state police in an effort to
strengthen security in the region, the state’s security spokesman Roberto
Alvarez told a Mexican television channel on Monday.
“The bodies of nine males with visible signs of torture” were
discovered on Sunday night on a road between the towns of Tixtla and Atliaca, in Guerrero’s central region, the state’s secretary of security said in a statement on Monday.
Agents at the local prosecutors office reported finding “four bodies
tied at the feet and hands,” and noted that authorities also recovered five black plastic bags containing the remains of five more people.
Those five bodies had been dismembered, with some of the body parts
found outside the bags, a Tixtla police commander told AFP, requesting anonymity for security reasons. Meanwhile, five more people were killed elsewhere in the state.
Authorities are taking steps to identify the individuals.
At least 10 additional people died in Guerrero’s Pacific resort of
Acapulco during a weekend of bloodshed, including two members of the Navy, said Alvarez.
In September, a top Guerrero police official and his female companion
were stabbed to death in Acapulco.