More cartel violence on popular Mexico tourist beach as two men found strangled to death in Acapulco resort with police claiming they were 'tortured around the neck'

Two men were found tortured to death inside an abandoned cabana at a beach in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco.

Beach workers made gruesome discovery at Condesa Beach on Thursday morning around 6 am after receiving a tip from an anonymous caller and the municipal police.

The victims were found lying face down with their hands tied and a piece of wood drilled over their necks.

The names of the individuals were not released by the Guerrero State Attorney General's Office as of Friday.

Two men were found tortured to death inside an abandoned cabana on a beach in Acapulco, Mexico on Thursday morning. 

Authorities said beach workers received an anonymous call and found the two dead males inside the cabana near a bar at Condesa Beach in Acapulco on Thursday

Prosecutors said the men's bodies bore signs of 'torture by ligature' with 'signs of torture around the neck.'

Mexican drug gangs frequently kill their victims by asphyxiation, either by strangling them or wrapping duct tape or plastic bags around their heads.

The victims were among six people murdered during a period of less than 24 hours.

Two severed heads were found abandoned near a school and one a main avenue on Wednesday.

The beach murders comes a week after Niko Honarbakhsh, 44, was killed during a shootout between drug dealers at the Mia Beach Club in Tulum, the popular resort along the Caribbean coast.

ABC News reported that Honarbakhsh, the wife of a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent, was living in nearby Cancún at the time of her death.

Belize national and local drug dealer Shawn Billary, 22, was also killed during the gun battle.

Billary had cocaine and pills in his possession, the Quintana Roo State Attorney General's Office said.

Mexican law enforcement agents remove body bags containing the bodies of two men who were found tortured to death inside a cabana on a beach in Acapulco on Thursday

Cops in Acapulco remove one of the two bodies found dead inside a cabana at Condesa Beach in Acapulco, Mexico on Thursday. The city reported 31 murders in 

Acapulco, located along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, was once a favorite landing spot for the Hollywood elite that since 2006 has been riddled with violence sparked by rival cartels and gangs battling for drug trade turfs. 

To combat crime, a security force made up of 16,000 members of National Guard, military and state and local police patrols Acapulco, where visitors have slowly made their way back after Hurricane Otis ravaged the city in October.

The storm left 52 people dead and destroyed and damaged hotels – a fraction of the city's hotel rooms – about 7,000 have been repaired.

In early February, the state government deployed 60 gun-toting detectives to patrol the beaches 'in light of the violent events that have occurred recently.'

At least three people were shot dead on beaches in Acapulco that week, one by gunmen who arrived - and escaped - aboard a boat.

The heavy military and police presence has not been enough to keep the violence at bay.

In January, the main Acapulco chamber of commerce reported that gang threats and attacks caused about 90 percent of the city's passenger vans to stop running, affecting the resort's main form of transport.

The cartel and gangs have been fighting over drug sales and income from extorting protection payments from businesses, bars, bus and taxi drivers.

At least 465 people were killed in Acapulco in 2023, in comparison with 453 homicides registered in 2022.

The city ranked sixth in the country with 31 murders reported in January.

Niko Honarbakhsh, 44, the wife of a former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was shot dead when she was apparently caught in the crossfire of a drug cartel dispute in a luxury Mexican resort on Sunday

U.S. Department of State has issued a do not travel advisory for six states including Guerrero because of crime, such as carjacking, kidnapping, robbery and homicide. 

U.S. travelers have been advised to exercise additional caution when visiting Quintana Roo, where Cancún and Tulum are located.

In December 2023, Canadian national Samy Tamouro, 37, was shot at an gym in downtown Cancún and died while he was being rushed to a medical facility after he was denied treatment at the first hospital he was taken to.

In April 2023, eight dead bodies, including three skeletal remains, were found strewn across Cancún.