US officials are warning tourists to stay away from certain parts of Mexico after eight bodies — some dismembered — were found this week in Cancun.
Prosecutors in Quintana Roo said the bodies of a man and a woman were found in an abandoned taxi Tuesday while dismembered bodies of two men were found elsewhere stuffed in plastic bags.
Two other men, including one who was bound, were shot to death and another man was killed while lying in a hammock. Details of the eighth death weren’t immediately available.
None of the killings happened in the beachside hotel zone of the vacation hot spot.
The US State Department issued a travel advisory Wednesday warning travelers to “exercise increased caution in Mexico due to crime.”
It said not to travel to Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas — which are all located nowhere near Cancun.
In Quintana Roo, the State Department advised travelers to exercise increased caution.
In April, Cancun was rocked by 14 murders over a span of just 36 hours.
With Post wires



