| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2008 
6 Burnt Bodies Appear in Tijuana, Mexico
 Dan Keane - Associated Press
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| | A man rides his bike next to the place where six charred bodies were found in Tijuana, northern Mexico, early Monday, July 7, 2008. The discovery of six charred bodies street closed out a violent weekend that saw at least 8 other murders in this border city, according to officials at the Baja California state attorney's office. (AP/Guillermo Arias) | | |
Tijuana, Mexico - Police on Monday found six charred bodies on a Tijuana street following a bloody weekend that left 14 people dead.
Assistant Baja California state attorney Salvador Ortiz said the six unidentified men were shot dead early Monday morning and their corpses set on fire.
The state attorney's office also reported another eight men killed over the weekend in separate attacks.
The execution-style killings marked a resurgence in violence between feuding Tijuana drug cartels.
"It's a situation that obviously worries us," Ortiz said, counting up the weekend's toll on his fingers while speaking to reporters outside the city police station.
One of burned bodies had been handcuffed, while others had their heads wrapped in plastic bags, Ortiz said.
Ortiz said investigators still do not know if the weekend killings were related to the burned bodies. A Tijuana police officer is the chief suspect in a triple shooting over the weekend.
Also Monday, police in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found the decapitated body of a man wrapped in a tarp and dumped on a street in the city of Culiacan. The head and a threatening note were found nearby inside a plastic bag, said a state police official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak about the case.
Ten decapitated bodies, including Monday's victim, have been found throughout Culiacan in the past week.
President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 soldiers across the country to wrest back territory from drug gangs, which have responded with bold attacks on the military and police.
More than 4,000 people have been killed in turf wars, assassinations and shootouts since December 2006, when Calderon took office.
Associated Press Writer E. Eduardo Castillo in Mexico City contributed to this story. |
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