14 headless bodies found in Mexican city
May 4, 2012 20:17:21 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 4, 2012 20:17:21 GMT -5
14 headless bodies found in Mexican city
Fourteen headless bodies were found stuffed inside a van and nine more hanging from a bridge in a brutal day of gang violence in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Nine bodies found hanging over Mexico bridge
More than 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence since the launch of a crackdown in late 2006 Photo:
10:31PM BST 04 May 2012
The heads from the decapitated bodies were found in ice boxes outside the city hall, according to local security forces, only a mile from the American border.
Horrified motorists earlier encountered the blood-stained bodies of four women and five men hanging off a bridge, alongside an apparent message from a drug gang.
The grim spectacles were extreme even for Nuevo Laredo and the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, which have seen some of the most gruesome episodes in Mexico's brutal five-and-a-half year drug war so far.
State security forces and soldiers cordoned off the areas where the bodies were found and gave no immediate comment.
Nuevo Laredo, the main road trade crossing from Mexico into the United States, is regularly the scene of vicious disputes between the Zetas drug gang - set up by ex-elite soldiers-turned-hitmen in the 1990s - and their former employers the Gulf cartel, now believed to be allied to the Sinaloa cartel of billionaire fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Last month the dismembered remains of 14 men were found inside a van left near Nuevo Laredo city hall. Days afterwards a car exploded outside police headquarters.
Mexico has seen a rise in gangland-style violence blamed for more than 50,000 deaths since the start of a nationwide military crackdown on organized crime in December 2006.
In neighboring Veracruz state, further south on the Gulf of Mexico, security forces Thursday found the dismembered bodies of two missing news photographers and two others, just days after a magazine reporter was killed in the same state.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/9247447/14-headless-bodies-found-in-Mexican-city.html
Fourteen headless bodies were found stuffed inside a van and nine more hanging from a bridge in a brutal day of gang violence in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Nine bodies found hanging over Mexico bridge
More than 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence since the launch of a crackdown in late 2006 Photo:
10:31PM BST 04 May 2012
The heads from the decapitated bodies were found in ice boxes outside the city hall, according to local security forces, only a mile from the American border.
Horrified motorists earlier encountered the blood-stained bodies of four women and five men hanging off a bridge, alongside an apparent message from a drug gang.
The grim spectacles were extreme even for Nuevo Laredo and the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, which have seen some of the most gruesome episodes in Mexico's brutal five-and-a-half year drug war so far.
State security forces and soldiers cordoned off the areas where the bodies were found and gave no immediate comment.
Nuevo Laredo, the main road trade crossing from Mexico into the United States, is regularly the scene of vicious disputes between the Zetas drug gang - set up by ex-elite soldiers-turned-hitmen in the 1990s - and their former employers the Gulf cartel, now believed to be allied to the Sinaloa cartel of billionaire fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Last month the dismembered remains of 14 men were found inside a van left near Nuevo Laredo city hall. Days afterwards a car exploded outside police headquarters.
Mexico has seen a rise in gangland-style violence blamed for more than 50,000 deaths since the start of a nationwide military crackdown on organized crime in December 2006.
In neighboring Veracruz state, further south on the Gulf of Mexico, security forces Thursday found the dismembered bodies of two missing news photographers and two others, just days after a magazine reporter was killed in the same state.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/9247447/14-headless-bodies-found-in-Mexican-city.html
