MEXICO CITY—Eight bodies were found Saturday on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, and they appear to be those of eight men apparently kidnapped from a resort on the Caribbean coast.
Prosecutors in the state of Yucatan said the bodies were probably those of men reported abducted in the laid-back beach town of Xcalak.
Xcalak, which is sometimes spelled Xcalac—the spelling used by prosecutors—is located on the southern tip of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, near Belize.
At least seven men, and possibly eight, had been reported abducted Friday from a ranch in Xcalak.
The bodies were found by a farmer in a field in a Yucatan village just over the border from Quintana Roo. Yucatan prosecutors said they do not appear to have been killed where they were found, and were probably just dumped there….