Mexico: 11 corpses were found after conflict between opposing gangs

The carcasses of eleven murdered people were found today in South Mexico, in an area plagued by the violence of criminal gangs, the local prosecutor’s office said. Authorities are conducting an investigation after the discovery of the dead in the Tcanapana community, in the state of Guerrero. According to local media, a conflict between opposing gangs had been preceded. The prosecutor’s office said police and experts investigated the area and collected data. After the exchange of fire, the perpetrators placed the bodies near a trailer and set on fire, the Milenio news website reported. The state of Guerrero, who is wet by the Pacific and crossed by the Sierra Madre Mountains, was a stronghold of the rebels in the 1970s. Today, like other Mexican states, it is plagued by drug cartel violence. In November, another eleven corpses were found, including four minors. All the dead were members of the same family, from which the traces of 17 people were lost. In early October the mayor of […]
Source: News Beast

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