12 Federal Police Officers Tortured & Killed in Michoacán, Mexico

by Jarrett Martineau | July 14, 2009 at 12:04 pm

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Twelve people found tortured and killed in a remote part of the Michoacán state in Mexico have been identified as federal police officers.

The names of the deceased, or their alleged attackers, have not been released.

NowPublic will be updating this story as more information becomes available.

Twelve bodies with signs of torture found on the side of a remote highway in the Mexican state of Michoacan were federal police officers, Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, technical secretary for Mexico’s national security council, said at a news conference Tuesday.

The officers, 11 men and one woman, were “ambushed while they were off duty by an armed group,” Rubido said.