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Relatives mourn over the coffin of Guatemalan citizen Elmer Constantino Castro Andres at an Air Force base in Guatemala City on March 21, 2012.
The bodies of 11 Guatemalan citizens were repatriated from Mexico on Wednesday, The Associated Press reports. They were part of a group of 72 migrants from South and Central America who were killed by the Zetas drug cartel in August 2010 in the northeastern Mexico town of San Fernando, according to the Mexican authorities.
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A police officer stands guard outside the La Piedad embalming building, after another 50 bodies found in a mass grave in northern Mexico arrived in Mexico City on April 19. The toll of murder victims buried in a series of mass graves in northern Mexico rose to around 150 last Friday, said the state government of Tamaulipas, where the attack occurred. Mexico's attorney general blamed the atrocity on the brutal Zetas drug cartel.
Read more about the appalling discovery in Tamaulipas and view more images on the background to Mexico's drug war in our slideshow.
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