Mexico: gunmen dump 35 dead bodies on busy street
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Mexico: gunmen dump 35 dead bodies on busy street
Masked gunmen have blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city and dumped the bodies of 35 murder victims as horrified motorists watched.
Police and members of a forensic team stand around bodies on a motorway in Boca del Rio, on the outskirts of Veracruz Photo: REUTERS
7:00AM BST 21 Sep 2011
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Reynaldo Escobar Perez, Veracruz state Attorney General, said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground of an underpass near a shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio. Newspapers Milenio and La Jornada said some of the bodies had their hands tied and showed signs of torture.
Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records and were linked to organised crime, Mr Escobar said.
The Gulf and Zetas drug cartels have been locked in a bloody war for control in Veracruz state over the last year.
Motorists first began tweeting that masked gunmen in military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard in Boca del Rio and pointing their guns at civilians.
Local media reported that some of the victims were prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but Mr Escobar said he couldn't confirm that.
At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police recaptured 14 of them.
Earlier, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico.
Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, was captured without incident in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said.
Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights Templar, which split late last year from La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine.
About 42,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched a campaign against drug cartels at the beginning of his term in late 2006. Most of that violence has been focused on the northern border with the United States.
Mexico: gunmen dump 35 dead bodies on busy street
Masked gunmen have blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city and dumped the bodies of 35 murder victims as horrified motorists watched.
Police and members of a forensic team stand around bodies on a motorway in Boca del Rio, on the outskirts of Veracruz Photo: REUTERS
7:00AM BST 21 Sep 2011
Comments18 Comments
Reynaldo Escobar Perez, Veracruz state Attorney General, said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground of an underpass near a shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio. Newspapers Milenio and La Jornada said some of the bodies had their hands tied and showed signs of torture.
Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records and were linked to organised crime, Mr Escobar said.
The Gulf and Zetas drug cartels have been locked in a bloody war for control in Veracruz state over the last year.
Motorists first began tweeting that masked gunmen in military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard in Boca del Rio and pointing their guns at civilians.
Local media reported that some of the victims were prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but Mr Escobar said he couldn't confirm that.
At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police recaptured 14 of them.
Earlier, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico.
Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, was captured without incident in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said.
Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights Templar, which split late last year from La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine.
About 42,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched a campaign against drug cartels at the beginning of his term in late 2006. Most of that violence has been focused on the northern border with the United States.
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