GUATEMALA City - at least 27 people were found dead in a Guatemalan village near the border with the Mexico Sunday morning in a worst killings of mass in the country in a generation, said local police.
The bloody incident began when a raiders attacked the small town of Caserio La Bomba about 275 miles north of the capital, said police.
Two women were among the victims of the attack, said police, who attempt to determine the exact time of the attack and the search for more bodies. Many of the victims were slaughtered and beheaded, police said.
"This is the worst massacre that we have seen in modern times", police spokesman Donald Gonzalez said Reuters, saying that it was difficult to recall a massacre of this magnitude since the Guatemala 36-year civil war ended in 1996.
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.
Jose Leon was sought by the Drug Enforcement Administration of United States when he was killed in an attack of 2008 which involved 30 men ambushes of his home. Ten other people were killed in the shooting.
Police in closer to killing 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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