18 BODIES FROM MASS GRAVES, REDISCOVERED BY MEXICAN POLICE

Mexican forensic specialists work at a mass grave where they found eight bodies in Chilpancingo near Acapulco.

ACAPULCO Mexico - In another grisly turn in Mexico's drug war, police have recovered 18 bodies from a mass grave announced in a YouTube posting, a video saying the victims were from a tourist group kidnapped in Acapulco a month ago.
Authorities said they would resume their search for more remains at the burial site in Tres Palos, a town just south of the Pacific resort city.

• Police did not yet know if the bodies found were from the 20 men abducted at gunpoint September 30 while visiting Acapulco from neighbouring Michoacan state, Fernando Monreal, investigative police chief for Guerrero state, said Wednesday night.
• Officers began digging at the site early Wednesday after receiving an anonymous phone call alerting them to two bodies dumped on an empty lot.
• Hours earlier, a video appeared on Youtube in which two men, their hands apparently tied behind their backs and answering questions from an unseen interrogator, say they killed and buried them in the area.
• The two bodies reported in the tip were found wearing the same clothes as the pair seen in the video and were lying on top of the mass the grave.
• A sign left read: "The people they killed are buried here." It was signed by Acapulco's Independent Cartel.

Source: EPA