MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fourteen mutilated corpses and a threatening message aimed at a drug cartel were found inside a truck in the parking lot of a supermarket in a northern Mexico city, local media reported on Saturday.
Mexico's attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the reports of the grisly discovery in Mante and police officials in the crime-ridden city were not immediately available for comment.
Mexican media said the body parts belonged to 10 men and four women and the message was directed at the Gulf cartel.
In a separate incident on June 7, 14 dismembered bodies were discovered inside a truck in Mante, located in the south of Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas and is one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico's drug war.
More than 55,000 people have been killed in the conflict since President Felipe Calderon sent in the army to fight drug gangs shortly after he took office in December 2006.
Calderon's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, appears likely to lose power in the presidential election on July 1, due partly to rising frustration with the drug-related violence.
This week, Mexico was left red-faced after authorities admitted they had mistakenly claimed to have captured a son of the country's most-wanted man, drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
(Reporting By Cyntia Barrera Diaz; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Cadáveres corresponden a cuatro mujeres y a diez hombres. Vehículo tenía placas de Nuevo León.
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Publicado: 23/06/2012 14:59
Ciudad Victoria, Tamps. Un camión de carga con 14 cadáveres mutilados fue abandonado en el estacionamiento de un centro comercial este sábado en Ciudad Mante, en la región cañera de Tamaulipas.
Autoridades reportaron que el hallazgo se realizó a las 9 de la mañana en el estacionamiento de la tienda Soriana, ubicada en la calle Vicente Guerrero, en el centro de la ciudad.
Los cuerpos desmembrados corresponden a cuatro mujeres y a diez hombres. El vehículo donde se encontraban tenía placas de Nuevo León y también contenía un mensaje, al parecer dirigido al cártel del Golfo.
Se trata de la segunda masacre documentada este mes. Apenas el día 7 de junio, frente a la alcaldía, se reportó el hallazgo de otros 14 cadáveres.
En esa ocasión, junto a los cuerpos también se encontró una narcomanta cuyo contenido no fue revelado por las autoridades.
La víspera, ocho personas resultaron heridas durante ataques con explosivos en cuatro puntos de Ciudad Victoria, la capital de Tamaulipas.
Sucursales bancarias, centros comerciales y dependencias federales fueron sede de los atentados con granadas de fragmentación.
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Hechos violentos en siete estados dejaron ayer un saldo de 44 muertos | |
| Mar Horacio Ramos, Ignacio Roque Madriz y David Casas |Nacional | 2012-06-24 | Hora de creación: 23:36:30 | Ultima modificación: 00:05:45 |
Durante una ola de violencia registrada ayer al menos 44 personas perdieron la vida, en distintos hechos relacionados con el crimen organizado en Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Guerrero, Nuevo León, Jalisco, Durango y Michoacán. OOGLE TRANSLATION Violent events in seven states yesterday left a balance of 44 dead Mar Horacio Ramos, Ignacio Roque and David Madriz Homes | National 24.06.2012 | Creation Time: 23:36:30 | Last Modified: 00:05:45 During a wave of violence yesterday at least 44 people were killed in separate incidents related to organized crime in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon, Jalisco, Durango and Michoacan. In Tamaulipas, 14 mutilated bodies appeared inside an abandoned truck in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Ciudad Mante. A source from the state attorney explained that at 09:00 hours was reported the discovery of the bodies along with a narcomensaje in the parking lot of a supermarket chain located in the center of the municipality. The prosecution explained that it is 10 bodies of men and four women all mutilated and a narco message to the Gulf Cartel. While in the municipality of Lerdo de Tejada, Veracruz, was located a clandestine grave with eleven human skeletons. The Secretary of the Navy of Mexico undertook dig up human remains. Meanwhile, in various municipalities of Guerrero the wave of violence left seven people killed, five of whom died in shootouts in the municipality of Apaxtla Castrejon and another died in hospital Teloloapan. In Acapulco, a shooting left as a result one dead, one wounded and a woman deprived of their liberty. In Monterrey, a body was found in a car, while gunmen executed one person and wounded his nephew left refusing to pay a fee. In the first event in the center of Monterrey was found a corpse in a Volkswagen Jetta with the plates FGR-2162. Moreover, in San Nicolas de los Garza, a man about 60 years old was shot by an armed, while his nephew aged between 20 and 25 were injured. In another incident, after close off a motorcycle, the driver of a van was amagado by armed men who kidnapped him, but managed to escape despite being tied hand and foot. Meanwhile, in San Sebastian del Oeste, Jalisco, human remains were found buried in three mass graves, which correspond to three people. The bodies were in a ranch called Palmillas de Macedo and experts from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) exhumed the skeletal remains. One of the bodies has a bullet in the head and is maimed. In Durango, two people were killed and one was injured more seriously, when staff moved Expert Services on board an official unit Soapy village was attacked by several gunmen with these results. Within the limits of the municipalities of Buenavista Tomatlan and Tepalcatepec in Michoacán five bodies, three men and two women, were found inside plastic bags. Alleged gunmen executed the coup de grace to the five people, among which one of the women was pregnant and was beheaded, and one of the men were maimed arm. The rest of the bodies were blindfolded and showed signs of torture. In addition to the bodies found on the bridge of Piedras Blancas, right next to a grocery store, was found pinned to the chest of one of the women a message that said: Here we leave a little present gentlemen to see that it can be since we're here Mencho and Rafa Álvarez: att 8 CJNG. | |