| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2008 
Decapitated Bodies of 3 Men Found in Western Mexico
 Associated Press
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| | Members of Mexico's Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) stand guard outside a bank in Mexico City September 22, 2008. Mexican soldiers hunting for drug cartels seized a stash of more than $26 million in cash at a house in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the defense ministry said last week. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) | | |
Mexico City — The decapitated bodies of three men were found on a road Thursday in a western Mexican state plagued by drug violence, local media reported. The heads were found in sacks nearby.
Beheadings have become a common intimidation tactic in territorial battles between Mexico's powerful drug cartels. Decapitated bodies are often dumped in public, sometimes with threatening messages.
Police found the three bodies with their hands bound in El Huajote, a town in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, Mexican newspapers Reforma and El Universal reported, citing the state Attorney General's office.
Nobody at the office could be reached Thursday evening to confirm the reports, which cited no suspects or motives.
Sinaloa, home base of the drug cartel by the same name, is among the states hit hardest by a wave of violence sweeping Mexico. President Felipe Calderon has sent more than 250,000 troops and federal police to battle drug gangs nationwide, but homicides and shootouts have only surged.
Also Thursday, gunmen killed a candidate for the Guerrero state legislature while he exercised outside with his 22-year-old daughter, police said.
Homero Rios, mayor of the town of Ayutla de los Libres near the resort city of Acapulco, had taken leave to run for the legislature.
His Democratic Revolution Party condemned the "cowardly assassination" and said it heightened tensions ahead of Oct. 5 local elections.
Police had no suspects or possible motives. |
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