Prosecutors file charges against teen assassin

MEXICAN prosecutors have filed homicide charges against a 14-year-old US citizen who allegedly acted as an assassin for a drug cartel.

Authorities say Edgar Jimenez Lugo confessed to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were hung from a bridge in Cuernavaca, a central colonial city that is popular with Mexican and international tourists alike.

Jimenez has been charged with the homicides and other crimes, including arms possession and transporting cocaine, prosecutors from Morelos state, where Cuernavaca is located, said.