MEXICO CITY (AP) - The discovery of two bodies cut into pieces and shoved into two black bags brought a tragic end to a search for two missing police officers in Mexico.
Law enforcement officials say the bagged body parts were found outside police headquarters in Guerrero's capital city, Chipancingo.
Police officers have been targets, and are sometimes complicit, in Mexico's 17,900 drug-related killings since President Felipe Calderon stepped up the drug war in December 2006.
Gunmen yesterday killed a bodyguard and wounded three other people during the attempted assassination of a police chief in northeast Mexico.
The bodyguard of Rene Castillo Sanchez, head of security in the city of Santa Catarina, was killed during the attack and three other people were wounded.
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