Two Canadians, One American Found Dead in Mexico Lake

Mexican authorities found on Thursday the bodies of a second elderly Canadian man and an American man in a lake where they had gone out sailing earlier this week.

The three men went out in a sailboat on Monday on Lake Chapala, a popular location among North American retirees in western Jalisco state.

Their vessel was found on Tuesday after a woman reported them missing and the first body, of a 78-year-old Canadian man, was discovered the same day.

On Thursday, rescuers found a 72-year-old Canadian and the 69-year-old U.S. national, the Jalisco civil protection agency said.

Also Thursday, three bodies were found with their facial skin peeled off near a southern Mexico city where at least 10 people were allegedly kidnapped by an armed group last week.

The bodies were covered in blankets when they were discovered on a path near the cemetery of Nejapa, a village part of the Chilapa municipality, said Guerrero state chief prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez Munoz.

It was unclear how long ago they were killed. Skinning faces of victims is a gruesome practice among Mexico's violent drug gangs.

Meanwhile, a judge in northern Mexico charged five children with homicide over the torture and gruesome killing of a six-year-old during a "kidnapping game" that has shocked the country.

The two 15-year-old boys, two 13-year-old girls and one 11-year-old boy attended the court hearing in the state of Chihuahua, a week after the murder of Christopher Raymundo Marquez.

He was found buried under a dead dog and weeds next to a stream on the outskirts of the state's capital on May 14. Prosecutors say the children had tied him up, nearly asphyxiated him, stoned him and stabbed him.

The judge, Francisco de Leon Merino, ordered that the 15-year-old boys be jailed in the Chihuahua Court for Minors while the three younger ones be kept under the custody of the state child services agency.