Gunmen have killed at least 27 people – decapitating most of the victims – in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico in one of the worst mass killings in a generation, local police said.
The killing of the 25 men and two women took place early on Sunday in the town of Caserio La Bomba in Peten province near the Mexico border, Donald Gonzalez, a National Civil Police spokesman, said…
Police said the slayings could be linked to the killing on Saturday of 56-year-old Haroldo Waldemar Leon, the brother of suspected drug trafficker Juan Jose Leon, who was gunned down in a rural area of northern Guatemala… (more)
EDITOR: Coming to a neighborhood near you? This is a byproduct of the War On Drugs.
