Four men found Beheaded as Mexico drug war rages
Pastor Dale Morgan
Four men found Beheaded as Mexico drug war rages*
03 Jul 2008 03:43:30 GMT
Source: Reuters
MEXICO CITY, July 2 (Reuters) - The severed heads of four men were found
dumped on a Mexican street on Wednesday with a message accusing a drug
gang kingpin of treachery, police said.
Neighbors in the northern city of Culiacan found the men's bodies
wrapped in plastic sheets and a blanket, with their heads stuffed into
white plastic bags.
An obscenity-laden note scrawled onto a piece of cardboard invited
Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman -- the head of the Sinaloa drug
cartel -- "to see what his stupid acts had caused."
Guzman, who is considered Mexico's most-wanted man, is battling a rival
gang led by his one-time ally Arturo Beltran Leyva, whose hitmen
reportedly killed one of Guzman's sons in May.
In a separate incident in the same city, police said they killed four
suspected drug gang members in a shootout.
More than 1,600 people have died so far this year in drug violence as
gangs battle for control of lucrative trafficking routes and as the
government has stepped up anti-smuggling operations by deploying
thousands of army troops. (Reporting by Anahi Rama and Jason Lange)