Mexico was stunned by a shocking new massacre Monday after four women and a teenage girl who worked in an Acapulco beauty parlor were found stripped and slaughtered. The 14-year-old and two of the women were found on the second floor of the shop Sunday with their hands bound - and their throats cuts.
Two other victims were found elsewhere in the resort city - one dumped on a street behind a church and the other in an abandoned car.
None of the slain women were identified; police said the teen had worked at the salon for just five days.
A favorite stop for American tourists, Acapulco has been convulsed in recent months by violent turf wars between rival drug gangs that have left thousands dead in Mexico.
Still, mass murders of women are not the way traffickers usually settle scores, police said.
In this case, "a massage parlor was found where sexual acts may have been performed, although this is still under investigation," Fernando Monreal Leyva, chief of detectives for the Guerrero state police, told The Associated Press.
Police in Mexico City were investigating whether the Acapulco massacre was connected to the discovery of a dismembered woman's body in the upscale San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood.
Her upper body was found on one block and her left leg and right leg were discovered on two other blocks, city prosecutors said.
The body parts were stuffed into three plastic bags and the fingers of the victim's left hand had been lopped off, they said.
Mexico City has experienced little drug gang violence and the discovery of the woman's body is all the more shocking because she was found in an area home to some of the country's top museums and several presidential palaces.
More than 34,600 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's powerful drug cartels in 2006.
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