Drug hitmen kill Guatemala cops jailed for murder

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CUILAPA, Guatemala, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Drug hitmen murdered four policeman being held at a Guatemalan prison on Sunday on charges of killing three Salvadoran politicians last week, police said.

"It is confirmed that the four bodies are them. It's a drug trafficking thing," police spokeswoman Maria Fernandez told Reuters.

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The deputies' bodies were found dead in a burned-out car near Guatemala City on Tuesday. Guatemalan officials said their murders were drug related, an indication of the high levels drug crime has reached in Central America.

Police did not say how the prison killings happened but relatives of prisoners in the Boqueron prison, near the town of Cuilapa, said on the radio that prison guards let attackers enter the jail at visiting time and that shots were heard soon after.

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