IS MEXICO SAFE? BODIES OF 8 PEOPLE DISCOVERED IN BEACH RESORT CITY OF CANCUN, TRAVEL ADVISORY ISSUED
A Federal police officer stands on guard at the area where at least five people including a ministerial police officer were killed in Puerto Juarez, Cancun, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on July 27.STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The U.S. State Department issued a level two travel advisory for Mexico after eight bodies were discovered in the beach resort city of Cancun. Some of the bodies were discovered in the trunk of a taxi cab and at least two bodies were found dismembered. The bodies of a man and a woman were discovered shoved into the trunk of an abandoned taxi cab at a shopping mall in the early hours Monday, the Riveria Maya News reported. The identities of the two victims were unknown. Authorities discovered the bodies of two men dismembered and placed in several plastic bags at another location, the Associated Press reported. The bodies, which were not identified, were discovered on Rancho Viejo avenue, according to Mexican news organization EJE Central.