Gunmen killed 12 people in different parts of Michoacan state, including three men who were beheaded, state officials said Friday.

Mexican authorities say gunmen shot and killed the mayor of a town in the western state of Michoacan, the latest in a string of attacks against elected local officials.

A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday.

Mexican soldiers have found at least eight bodies buried in a shallow grave in the violence-plagued state of Michoacan, authorities said.

Prosecutors say two men carrying six tubes of a gel explosive have been arrested in central Mexico.

Mexican police are testing a new weapon against widespread corruption in their ranks: home ownership.

Mexican police on Friday were trying to determine who hung several banners in this colonial city blaming Gulf cartel hit men for a grenade attack that killed seven people in an Independence Day crowd.

Police searched Wednesday for a tall, heavyset man, using a composite sketch provided by witnesses who saw him lob a grenade into an Independence Day crowd, then beg for forgiveness before slipping away.

Lighting candles and leaving flowers, Mexicans erected makeshift altars Wednesday on the stone walkways where grenades ripped through crowds of Independence Day revelers in this colonial city.

Assailants threw two grenades into a huge crowd of Independence Day revelers, killing seven and injuring more than 100 in a brazen attack that escalates the war between Mexico’s army and drug gangs.