Mexico drug fighter killed after less than a day on job

NEW: Retired general tortured before being killed, prosecutor says
NEW: Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez shot 11 times, paper reports
NEW: Former general, 63, moved to Cancun area just weeks ago

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area's top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier, officials said.

Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured before being killed, said Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo. He said there was no doubt Tello and the others were victims of organized crime.
"The general was the most mistreated," Rodriguez said at a Tuesday night news conference monitored by El Universal newspaper. "He had burns on his skin and bones in his hands and wrists were broken."