There was no immediate information on a possible motive in the shootings, but such attacks in Guanajuato in the past have been related to rivalries between drug gangs or street-level drug dealing. According to local media, the majority of the deceased were. local time, as locals went about their day. Guanajuato has Mexico’s highest number of homicides, and has been the scene of turf battles between the Jalisco drug cartel and local gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel. The nine bodies were eventually removed from the overpass by police around 10 a.m. The state prosecutors’ office said the shop specialized in repairing motorcycles. MEXICO CITY, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The bodies of six men were found hanging off a bridge in the city of Zacatecas in north-central Mexico on Thursday, an official said, in a region where. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The bodies of six men were found hanging from three different bridges near the Mexican tourist resort of Los Cabos on the Baja California peninsula on Wednesday. The killings in Zacatecas came one day after prosecutors in Mexico’s most violent state, Guanajuato, reported seven men were shot to death at a mechanic’s shop. Zacatecas, once dominated by the old Zetas cartel, has been the scene of turf battles between a number of cartels. Mexican authorities on Thursday discovered 10 bodies- nine of them hanging from an overpass- in the central state of Zacatecas, the scene of a battle for territory among drug cartels. One man and a woman were found wounded at the scene of the attack, along with five children who had not been wounded. In the nearby city of Fresnillo, police later found the bullet-ridden bodies of four women and three men. Ten bodies were left hanging from an overpass in Zacatecas on Thursday, adding to the ongoing wave of violence the state has faced for most of the year. Thursday local time, Mexico News Daily reported, citing Michoacn Attorney General Adrin Lpez Sols. Officials found nine bodies hanging from a bridge in Uruapan, in the western Michoacn state, around 5:30 a.m. They were members of the police force of the neighboring state of San Luis Potosi who had been reported missing hours earlier.ĭrug cartels have hung the bodies of victims from overpasses before as a message to rivals or authorities, but seldom do so with members of law enforcement. Nineteen dead bodies have been found displayed in a Mexican city in what appears to be a scare tactic by a local cartel.
The public safety department in Zacatecas state said the policemen’s bodies were found Wednesday morning in the state capital, also known as Zacatecas. MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities in northern Mexico said Wednesday they found the bodies of two abducted police officers hanging from an overpass, and the bodies of seven people shot to death in a neighboring city. Mexico's notorious drug cartels appear to have resumed some of its bloodiest tactics, after nine half-naked and tortured bodies recently were found hanging from a bridge on a federal.
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