Police find bodies of 24 men in central Mexico

The bodies of 24 men have been found with their hands bound and shot to death execution-style outside the capital, Mexican police reported on Friday. Assistant Mexico State Security Agency information director Antonio Ortega said authorities were at the scene of the crime. The rural area just west of Mexico City was marked by gangland slayings and land disputes between farming communities. Mexico's drug cartels and criminal gangs have been slaying their rivals in increasingly large numbers, and publicly dumping their corpses.