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Authorities in central Mexico apprehended three people as they were using acid to dissolve the body of a man they murdered, the Morelos state Attorney General's Office said. EFE/File

Mexico City, Sep 10 (EFE).- Authorities in central Mexico apprehended three people as they were using acid to dissolve the body of a man they murdered, the Morelos state Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. On Sunday, September 7, José Carmen Ortiz Villanueva was kidnapped during the internal elections of Mexico's PRD but it wasn't until today that police got a hold of his body. The suspects were caught in the act thanks to a telephone tip.

The caller reported seeing three armed men entering a residence in the municipality of Tetecala "with a bound and hooded man," the AG's office said in a statement. "The alleged perpetrators were standing around a barrel filled with acid in which they had already submerged the person who, according to the indications, they had kidnapped," the statement said.

Police handed the suspects over to prosecutors. This is not the first time acid is used to hide kidnaps and murders. In January 2009, police in the northwestern state of Baja California arrested Santiago Meza, a killer-for-hire who ultimately admitted to having dissolved in acid the bodies of roughly 300 people killed on the orders of Tijuana drug cartel boss Teodoro Eduardo Garcia Simental.

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