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Eight people on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico on Saturday The body was found and eight men were kidnapped from a resort on the Caribbean coast, officials said.
Yucatan prosecutors said the body was a man reportedly kidnapped in the laid-back beach town of Xcalak.
Xcalak (a spell used by prosecutors) is located on the southern tip of Mexico's Caribbean coast near Belize.
At least seven, and perhaps eight, were reported kidnapped from Xcalak's ranch on Friday.
The body was found by a farmer in a field in the village of Yucatan, which crossed the border with Quintana Roo. Yucatan prosecutors said they did not appear to have been killed where they were found, but were probably just dumped there.
Authorities did not identify the abducted men, but local media reported they were coastal ranch workers.
So far, Xcalak has largely escaped the violence that has plagued other beach towns in Quintana Roo. However, in the past it has been known that drug packages have been washed ashore there.
Violence is not uncommon in the region, but until recently it occurred mostly away from tourist destinations.
Last week, two Canadians were found dead in an apartment in Playa del Carmen, a Mexican resort city in Quintana Roo..
Two tourists, a German woman and an Indian woman, who lived in California in a shooting battle between drug traffickers in Tulum last October Died.
On January 21, a shooting at a resort near Cancun killed two other Canadians and injured one.
And in March, an English resident of Playa del Carmen was shot dead in the daytime while traveling with her daughter in a car.
Quintana Roo officials have shown that most recent attacks are related to drug trafficking or blackmail.
Mexico has recorded more than 340,000 murders and tens of thousands of disappearances since launching a controversial military attack on organized crime in 2006.
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