Near the decapitated heads, police found a message warning anyone who helped La Familia. The rest of their bodies have not been found, officials said.
Twelve Mexican police officers were ambushed and killed while investigating a crime scene
Twelve Mexican police officers were ambushed and killed near a remote southern town where locals earlier found 10 human heads, prosecutors said Monday.
The officers were ambushed on a highway Sunday hours after the heads of seven men and three women were found near a slaughterhouse in the mountain town of Teloloapan, an official with the Guerrero state attorney general’s office told AFP.
“A convoy of state and municipal police that was on patrol was attacked, and sadly 12 police officers died,” Guerrero state security spokesman Arturo Martinez Nunez later told local media.
Eleven other police officers were wounded in the attack, Martinez said.
Martinez Nunez blamed the attack on organized crime, but did not name suspects.
The region has been marked by clashes between the La Familia cartel and a group known as the Knights Templar.
Near the decapitated heads, police found a message warning anyone who helped La Familia. The rest of their bodies have not been found, officials said.
The Templars split from La Familia in early 2011, and the two have been engaged ever since in a turf battle in parts of Guerrero and nearby Michoacan.
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