Four Americans killed in Mexico near border-police

REUTERS

9:52 a.m. May 19, 2008

ROSARITO, Mexico – Four people believed to be Americans were shot in the head and dumped in a notorious drug-smuggling area in northern Mexico near the border with California, Mexican police said Monday.

Police in the beach town of Rosarito, across the border from San Diego, said they discovered the bodies of three men and a woman Sunday in an abandoned car in a remote patch of scrubland near the Pacific coast.

“The bodies had been there for at least a week. They were spotted by local people out hunting,â€