Tortured bodies discovered alongside Mexican road
Tortured bodies discovered alongside Mexican road
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By Adam Leveridge. |  |
Tuesday, 14, Jul 2009 09:04
Mexican police have discovered at least twelve tortured bodies alongside an isolated stretch of road in the west of the country.
The exact number of bodies is still unknown but they are all believed to be the latest victims of an ongoing feud between rival drug cartels.
A local official from the Michoacan state prosecutors office is quoted by the Reuters news agency as suggesting all the victims were killed by gunshots.
Four bodies were found by police in the same location last week.
The victims discovered on Monday are said to have been bound, blindfolded and showed signs of torture.
Michoacan, the home state of Mexico's president Felipe Calderon, is at the centre of a raging drug war and has witnessed a number of killings and arrests in recent weeks.
Mr Calderon has attempted to crush the drug cartels sending more than 45,000 troops across the country to known drug hotspots.
However, the cartels have responded in turn with a rise in violence seeing more than 11,000 people killed since 2006.