GUATEMALA City - at least 27 people were killed this weekend in a village near the border with the Mexico in one of the worst in a generation mass killings Guatemala, said local police.
The bloody incident began when 200 raiders attacked the small town of Caserio La Bomba, about 275 miles north of the capital, said police.
Two women were among the victims in the attack, said police, who attempt to determine the exact time of the attack and the search for more bodies.
"This is the worst massacre that we have seen in modern times," police spokesman Donald Gonzalez told Reuters.
Police said the killers could be linked to the Saturday killing 56 years Haroldo Waldemar Leon, the brother of alleged drug trafficker Juan Jose Leon, who was shot dead in a rural North of Guatemala.
Juan Jose Leon was sought by the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States, but he was killed in 2008.
Police in closer to killing Juan Jose Leon Las Zetas powerful Mexican drug cartel. Northern border of Guatemala is a transfer of active drug point of cocaine to the North of South America.
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