Four Human heads found dumped in Mexico Drug Wars
Pastor Dale Morgan
*Four Human heads found dumped in Mexico Drug Wars*
From correspondents in Monterrey, Mexico
May 24, 2008 07:12am
Article from: Reuters
SUSPECTED drug hitmen have dumped four human heads in ice chests in
northern Mexico in a gruesome murder of rivals.
"They were four men, beheaded by groups linked to drug trafficking. We
believe the victims were drug gang members themselves," a spokeswoman at
the state attorney general's office said today.
The heads were placed in four separate ice chests on a highway on the
edge of the mining city of Durango and were found by police patrolling
in the area.
Durango state is close to the Pacific state of Sinaloa, home to major
traffickers including Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "El Chapo"
(Shorty) Guzman.
Some 1300 people have been killed in drug violence across Mexico this
year and more than 2500 died in 2007 as gangs vie for smuggling routes
into the United States.
Drug cartels frequently torture and behead rivals.
In a separate incident in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas,
police found five bodies wrapped in blankets and dumped in an empty lot
on one of the city's main avenues, the Chihuahua state attorney
general's office said today.
Two of the bodies were beheaded and drug gangs left a warning message
reading: "This is what happens to stupid traitors who make the mistake
of siding with El Chapo Guzman."
President Felipe Calderon has sent some 25,000 troops and federal police
to quell the drug war across the country since taking office in December
2006, making big narcotics seizures and arresting drug kingpins.
But violence continues to escalate as drug gangs fight each other and
target troops and police officers.