Saturday, September 13, 2008

Mexican police find 24 bodies of men

Mexican police find 24 bodies of men
2008/09/13
03:02:37 È.Ù


Mexican police said on Friday they have found the bodies of 24 men who were bound and shot to death execution-style outside the capital.

The bodies found Friday represent one of the largest single mass executions in Mexico in recent memory.

Police and soldiers were at the scene of the crime in a rural area just west of Mexico City, which has been marked by gangland slayings and land disputes between farming communities.

In a statement, the Federal Attorney General's Office said it was considering taking over investigations into the case, an additional indication that organized crime, a Federal offense, was involved.

Mexico's drug cartels and criminal gangs have been slaying their rivals in increasingly large numbers, and publicly dumping their corpses, although not in the numbers seen on Friday.

On Aug. 28, 12 decapitated bodies were found outside Merida, the capital of Yucatan state.

M.H.Z

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=258715&n=28

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