| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2008 
4 Decapitated Bodies Found in Culiacan
 Associated Press
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| | Police investigators arrive at a crime scene where a local police chief was found killed in Culiacan in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in this May 28, 2008 file photo. Breaking with years of secrecy, Mexico's drug gangs are battling it out in public with audacious hit-lists and threats on banners strung up on streets as drug murders soar out of control. (Reuters/Stringer) | | |
Mexico City - Four decapitated bodies were found Wednesday on a street in the Mexican city of Culiacan and authorities said they believe the killings were drug gang-related.
Three of the bodies were inside black, plastic bags and the fourth was wrapped in a blanket, according to a report from the prosecutor's office in Sinaloa state, where Culiacan is located.
Police found the heads separately inside white bags on a nearby street in Culiacan, a center for the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel.
Authorities found a note on a piece of cardboard that read: "You're next Chapo. You ungrateful traitor." It was not immediately known if the note was aimed at the head of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman.
Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 and is among the most wanted drug lords in the United States and Mexico.
President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 troops across the country to wrest back territory from drug gangs, which have fought back with bold attacks. More than 4,000 people have been killed in turf wars, assassinations and shootouts since 2005. |
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