Mexico federal police chief fired over Michoacan ranch killings

Mexico's federal police chief, Enrique Galindo, was fired following allegations that police killed at least 22 suspected members of a drugs cartel.

The killings are thought to have taken place last year on a ranch in the western state of Michoacan last year.

President Enrique Pena Nieto reportedly said that he had dismissed Galindo to allow for a transparent investigation.

This comes after the Mexican police were accused earlier this month by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission of tampering with evidence, planting guns on some suspects and moving bodies to bolster the official version that all the deaths occurred during a gun battle in Tanhuato in May last year.

Galindo and National Security Commissioner Renato Sales have denied anyone was summarily killed and insisted officers used necessary force against highly armed criminals.