The prominent leader of a vigilante group in the western Mexican state of Michoacan was slain on Thursday, the local government said, in a brutal attack that left his body so badly burned that it was almost unrecognizable.
The state attorney general's office said at around midday it received word of an attack on Hipolito Mora in the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in western Michoacan. Mora founded a so-called self-defense group that rose to prominence a decade ago with a declared aim of protecting the area from a predatory drug gang in the violent state.
Three other bodies were found at the scene. Prosecutors said they believed Mora had been traveling with a security detail when he came under attack by assailants who then fled. A number of Mexican states plagued by chronic violent crime have given rise to self-defense groups, which defend their existence on the grounds that authorities have been ineffective.
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