Cops discover mass grave

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP):

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 yesterday 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 on 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 "the Michoacanos" and buried them in the area.