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The government has declared a 30-day state of siege in the large and wild northern Peten region that suspends certain rights.
And a 23-year-old eyewitness has also described how he managed to survive a gruesome massacre in the narco infested region...where at least 22 men...plus 2 women and 3 children...were slaughtered in an ambush in Caserio La Bomba. Two others also survived.
It is the worst massacre there since its civil war ended in 1996.
The witness says about 40-50 gunmen were seeking landowner Otto Salguero.
Police said the gunmen attacked workers on a remote cattle ranch...after they refused to co-operate .
They bound workers' hands and started hacking at them with machetes and wrote messages in blood saying they were looking for Salguero.
Salguero's whereabouts are unknown...but he was not known to be involved in criminal activities.
The gunmen bound workers' hands and started hacking at them with machetes..
25 of the victims were decapitated.
"I played dead when they stabbed me in the stomach. Then I hid and left at around 5am and I came across a pile of human heads," the witness said.
The government believes the murderers are Los Zetas...who have been fighting local drug gangs for territory.
The dense Peten jungle region is home to violent feuding narcos, large landholdings, illegal cattle-raising and threats to small farmers.
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