Grisly find in Mexico: Dismembered police officers

By The Associated Press
March 22, 2010 at 9:38 a.m.

MEXICO CITY — The pre-dawn discovery of two bodies cut into pieces and shoved into two black bags brought a tragic end Monday to a search for two missing police officers in the southern state of Guerrero.

Law enforcement officials say the bagged body parts were found at 3:15 a.m. outside police headquarters in Guerrero's capital city, Chipancingo.

Police officers have been targets, and are sometimes complicit, in Mexico's 17,900 drug-related killings since President Felipe Calderon stepped up the drug war in December 2006.

On Sunday, gunmen killed a bodyguard and wounded three other people during the attempted assassination of a police chief in northeast Mexico, state authorities said.

The bodyguard of Rene Castillo Sanchez, head of security in the city of Santa Catarina, was killed during the attack and three other people were wounded, said a spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state investigative agency.

Also Sunday, the military set up a makeshift checkpoint between the airport and the resort city of Acapulco after a man was killed at about 6 p.m. in a shootout between gunmen riding in separate vehicles.

The gunbattle followed the deaths of five men who pulled guns on each other during an early morning fight that began as an argument at a wedding Saturday night.

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