11 killed in cartel-plagued part of Mexico as mass shootings continue
The bloodshed in Chiapas marks at least the fourth mass killing in Mexico in about a week.
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The bloodshed in Chiapas marks at least the fourth mass killing in Mexico in about a week.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend have not been seen since April 27.
In video of the scene posted on social media, several shots can be heard and people are seen running and falling down.
The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared and her body was found on a road on the outskirts of the city.
About two dozen bags containing human remains were found in a clandestine cemetery, the Guerreros Buscadores collective said.
The woman was released without paying the ransom kidnappers sought, diplomats said on social media.
Police responding to reports of a criminal gang clash found 5 bodies in a remote Mexican town not far from the location of a 2020 massacre.
The clashes happened in the same area where four U.S. citizens, two of whom later died, were kidnapped at gunpoint last year.
Officials said the killings appeared to involve a "settling of scores" between cartels.
Authorties say José Alberto García Vilano is known by two nicknames -- "Cyclone 19" and "La Kena"
Jalisco cartel members have scammed at least 600 Americans out of about $40 million, officials said.
According to a recent government report, an estimated 200,000 firearms are smuggled into Mexico each year. Of those recovered and traced, nearly half come from Texas.
Gunmen tried to storm the hospital in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan to carry out a hit, police said.
Six bodies were discovered in an area of Mexico where seven youths were kidnapped days earlier, authorities said.
The Mormon group was headed to a wedding, and authorities said some of the victims were burned alive.
"All of these explosive devices are homemade, based on tutorials that can be found on the internet," Mexico's defense secretary said.
Monica De Leon Barba was kidnapped last November while walking her dog in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
It appeared to be the first time that a Mexican cartel killed law enforcement personnel with IEDs.
The Familia Michoacana cartel has dominated rural areas in the state for years, but may now be trying to take over the state capital.
The bodies were found as police looked in wooded lots and even sinkhole ponds known as cenotes.
Officials in the Cortazar municipality in Guanajuato state said that gunmen invaded the resort and opened fire.
At one point, the two survivors said the cartel tried to make them have sex.
The boy is accused of riding up on a motorcycle and opening fire on a family having a party in a low-income Mexico City suburb.
Eric Williams was one of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico. Two of them died.
Lemon Pie's toes were cut off by gang members as practice for torturing kidnap victims.
