MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities believe residents of a remote community in the mountains of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state beat five people to death and burned their bodies, the state prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.

Oaxaca state authorities and National Guard arrived to the community of Llano Amarillo in Santa Maria Texcatitlan on Tuesday looking for the five missing people. They found a burned out vehicle with the remains of five people inside, the Oaxaca state prosecutor’s office said in a statement Wednesday.

They believe the killings occurred Monday, but forensic investigators were still working to identify the remains.

Preliminary information suggests that the five had arrived to the mountain community about 125 miles (200 kms) from the state capital Monday to collect a high-int

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