Horror in Mexico - 32 bodies and nine human heads found in clandestine graves

Investigators have discovered 32 bodies and nine human heads in clandestine mass graves in southern Mexico where rival drug gangs have been engaged in a wave of extortion, kidnappings and turf battles. Soldiers and police have found the graves at an outlaw camp in Guerrero state following a tip-off that people were being held at the site located near a mountain in the municipality of Zitlala.
The police rescued a kidnap victim and discovered 12 bodies and human remains in coolers. Subsequently, after further excavations of the site, a total of 32 bodies and nine human heads came to the surface.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 25 November 2016.

The Guerrero Coordinating Group has said that soldiers were combing the area to check for any more clandestine graves. Work is also on to identify the bodies and the killers - the drug gangs frequently decapitate their victims.
Incidentally, residents of the community of Tixtla, Guerrero had found nine decapitated bodies along a highway and the prosecutors are checking out whether the nine heads found in Zitlala have links to these bodies. Guerrero has seen an upsurge in gang-related violence and, the largely rural, impoverished state had 1,832 reported homicides in the first 10 months of 2016.


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