Attackers killed at least 29 people – decapitating most of the victims – on a ranch in a part of northern Guatemala plagued by drug cartels.

Authorities said a mob beat a suspected criminal to death and threatened to burn three women who were with the victim. It was Guatemala’s fifth vigilante killing in three days.

Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and gunned down four jailed police officers in a mafia hit, the country’s leader said.

A Guatemalan mob has hacked a judge to death and set his body on fire after he let two suspected rapists walk free.