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Human head found in garbage on Mexico beach

Reuters
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; 8:19 PM



MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Workers clearing piles of garbage from a beach in Acapulco found an unpleasant reminder of the seamier side of Mexico's Pacific resort, which has seen dozens of murders this year -- a decomposing human head.

The head washed in from the ocean and appeared to be that of a man around 40 years old, Reforma newspaper said on its Web site on Wednesday. The head was discovered by state workers cleaning the beach.

Police believe the slayings are related to drugs trafficking.

In April suspected drug gang hitmen decapitated two policemen and placed their heads outside local government offices, apparently in retaliation for a crackdown on crime.

The resort, once popular as an exotic escape for Hollywood stars in the 1950s, is in the middle of a bloody turf war between cartels fighting for control of the lucrative local drug trade.