![]() The Jalisco drug cartel previously dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in Veracruz in 2011. Authorities located 10 bodies, including nine that were left hanging from a bridge in Zacatecas, Mexico, on Thursday morning A Zacatecas state official said the incident in the city of. “This kind of public, theatrical violence, where you don’t just kill, but you brag about killing, is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities,” Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope said. Officials found nine bodies hanging from a bridge in Uruapan, in the western Michoacán state, around 5:30 a.m. Zacatecas has been the scene of a battle for territory among drug cartels. The grisly deaths are a return to the violence prominent during Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war. The victims had been shot to death, and some of them were hung with their hands bound. ![]() Local officials associated the bodies with gang-related killings, with the 10th body being found on a nearby highway, Reuters reported. Two of the hanging bodies found were women, as was one of the dismembered bodies. Mexican authorities discovered 10 bodies, 9 of which were hanging from a bridge, in Zacatecas, a battleground for various drug cartels, the AP reported. ![]() The state attorney general reportedly said the killings were part of an ongoing turf war. The massacre happened in the state of Michoacan, and the banner was marked with the initials of the Jalisco drug cartel and mentioned a rival group. ![]() Three other bodies were found down the road, the Associated Press reports. Nine of the bodies were found hanging from an overpass Thursday, and seven were found mutilated and dumped by a nearby road. Police have found 19 bodies in Mexico near a drug cartel banner threatening rivals in an alleged killing spree. The Two-Way 23 Dead, 9 Of Them Hanged From A Bridge, In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico May 4, 20124:32 PM ET Eyder Peralta It has been a bloody day for the Mexican border-town of Nuevo Laredo. MEXICO CITY, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The bodies of 10 people were found in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas on Thursday, nine of them hanging from a bridge, in apparent gang-related. Mexican police have found 19 dead bodies, some hanged from an overpass and others butchered and dumped on the street, in what authorities suspect is a gang turf war, according to a report. Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass on Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. ![]()
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