10 police arrested in Mexico over federal killings

Ten policemen were arrested in the western state of Michoacan in connection with the murder of 12 federal police whose bodies were found piled next to a road, prosecutors said. The men are being held for 40 days while the killings are investigated. The preventative detention will allow investigators "to strengthen evidence that the men arrested today undertook criminal acts in support of the Michoacan 'La Familia' (drug cartel) and determine their responsibility for the murder of federal agents," prosecutors said in a statement...AFP