At least 17 killed in northern Mexico
At least 17 people have been killed in recent hours in northern Mexico, including nine whose charred bodies were discovered near Ciudad Juarez and four hit men gunned down during an attempt to spring other suspected cartel enforcers from custody in Monterrey.
Six people were found strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state's deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks, Reuters reported.