At least 12 alleged drug dealers were found dead in a Guatemalan village on the border with Mexico, and the authorities said Monday that they found a vehicle with licence plates from the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, according to dpa. Donald Gonzalez, spokesman for Guatemala's National Civilian Police (PNC), said they confirmed the death of 12 people, but they did not immediately know the circumstances of their deaths or how many of them were Mexican citizens. The PNC spokesman noted that six of the dead were identified as Guatemalans, while the authorities were seeking to determine the identities of the other six. The killings were believed to have taken place from late Sunday to early Monday in the village of Agua Zarca, in the Guatemalan municipality of Santa Ana Huista, some 330 kilometres northwest of the Guatemalan capital.
