Mexico City, Jan 7 (EFE).- The bodies of six people, including a woman and a teenager, were found on a rural road outside Quetzacoatlan, a community in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, state security officials said.
Police received a tip about the bodies and the remains of four of the victims, including a 14-year-old boy, have already been identified by relatives, Guerrero Public Safety Secretariat spokesmen said.
Media reports, citing residents, said about 30 gunmen showed up on Wednesday morning in Quetzacoatlan, located outside the city of Zitlala, and searched for the victims.
The Guerrero Attorney General's Office has not issued an official statement on the killings.
Guerrero Attorney General Xavier Olea, however, said in a television interview that "there was a clash between organized crime groups in Zitlala."
Army troops, state police and Federal Police officers were deployed in the area where the bodies were found.
Zitlala is located in the state's central region near Chilapa, where reports say the Los Rojos and Los Ardillos drug cartels are waging a turf war.
Chilapa de Alvarez is coveted by drug traffickers because it is surrounded by mountains where a large percentage of the poppies used to produce heroin for shipment to the United States are grown.
The only route for smuggling out poppies grown in the mountains runs through the area.
Guerrero Gov. Hector Astudillo told reporters after a public event in the city of Ometepec that he was aware of the incident outside Zitlala and the killings were being investigated.