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Fourteen bodies dumped by highway in eastern Mexico
Source: Reuters
Fourteen bodies dumped by highway in eastern Mexico
MEXICO CITY | Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:10pm EDT
(Reuters) - Fourteen bodies were found inside an abandoned truck along a highway in eastern Mexico, local police said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be the latest atrocity committed by rival drug cartels battling over smuggling routes to the United States.
The discovery in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz is the latest in a series of massacres that have heightened attention on Mexico's drug violence as the July 1 presidential election approaches.
The Veracruz state attorney general's office said the bodies were found late on Monday near the border with Tamaulipas state. It took all night to determine how many there were, the attorney general's office said in a statement. Local media reported that the bodies had been dismembered and packed in plastic bags.
Tamaulipas is one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico's drug war, where the Zetas cartel is fighting their former employers, the Gulf Cartel, for trafficking turf.
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MEXICO CITY | Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:10pm EDT
(Reuters) - Fourteen bodies were found inside an abandoned truck along a highway in eastern Mexico, local police said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be the latest atrocity committed by rival drug cartels battling over smuggling routes to the United States.
The discovery in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz is the latest in a series of massacres that have heightened attention on Mexico's drug violence as the July 1 presidential election approaches.
The Veracruz state attorney general's office said the bodies were found late on Monday near the border with Tamaulipas state. It took all night to determine how many there were, the attorney general's office said in a statement. Local media reported that the bodies had been dismembered and packed in plastic bags.
Tamaulipas is one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico's drug war, where the Zetas cartel is fighting their former employers, the Gulf Cartel, for trafficking turf.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-mexico-drugs-idUSBRE85B1AG20120612
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