MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say that police in Ciudad Juárez have captured five alleged drug-gang members suspected in the killings of two federal officers, including one whose body was hacked to pieces.
One of the suspects is thought to also have acted as a lookout in the July 15 car-bomb attack on police that killed an officer and two other people, said Luis Cardenas Palomino, regional security chief for the federal police, on Friday.
He described the five men as members of the La Linea gang, which works for the Juárez drug cartel. He alleged they killed two officers last week in Ciudad Juárez and hacked up one of the bodies.
Meanwhile, in the Pacific coast state of Michoacán, police found the bodies of six people in two locations, authorities said Friday. Prosecutors said the bodies of four males, including two teenagers, were found Thursday with their hands and feet bound inside a car in Tepalcatepec. Police in Tepalcatepec found the bodies of a man and a woman alongside a road.
The Associated Press; photo by Alexandre Menghini, The Associated Press
