Thread: MX Drug Wars Reach New Heights: Bodies thrown from bridges

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By Daily Mail Reporter

Mexico's drug wars reach new heights: four men bound, gagged and thrown from 600ft bridge as 13 die in just ONE day

Four men were killed after being bound, gagged and thrown from a 600 foot high bridge, as Mexico’s bloody drug battles left 13 people dead in just one day.

The remaining victims were murdered in ever more disturbing ways, with police discovering one had been beheaded, before being scalped and his faced skinned.

Friday’s massacre in southern Mexico is the latest spike in violence since rival factions of the Beltran Leyva cartel began fighting over territory after leader Arturo Beltran Leyva died in a battle with Mexican marines in December 2009.


Salvation bridge: The four men were thrown from the bridge which crosses Mezcala River in the latest violence to hit Mexico

The unidentified men were dropped from the 600 foot high Solidarity Bridge near the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo.

Police added: ‘it's presumed they were thrown alive from the bridge.’

Drug gang members have taken increasingly drastic measures seeking to intimidate rivals, from beheadings to skinning their victims.

Guerrero state authorities said earlier Friday that eight people, including four teenagers, were slain before dawn in a string of attacks throughout Acapulco. Guerrero state police said it was not clear if the attacks were related.

Nationwide, nearly 35,000 people have been killed in drug-gang violence since President Felipe Calderon deployed troops and federal police four years ago to crush the cartels in their strongholds.

In Mexico's north Friday, soldiers killed eight suspected drug cartel members in two clashes near the industrial city of Monterrey, the military said.

Soldiers intercepted a group of gunmen toting high-powered rifles and a grenade launcher and chased them into the Monterrey suburb of Guadalupe, where a shootout left five gunmen dead, Mexico's Defense Department said in a statement.

Another group of gunmen later fired on soldiers in Juarez, another Monterrey suburb, sparking a firefight that killed three attackers, it said.

Monterrey and the surrounding area has suffered a surge in drug violence as the Gulf Cartel battles the Zetas group for territory.



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Nationwide, nearly 35,000 people have been killed in drug-gang violence since President Felipe Calderon deployed troops and federal police four years ago to crush the cartels in their strongholds.

Let's do a little 3rd grade math for our illuminated congress, senate, president, and Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder ..

4 x 365 = 1,460 days

35,000 / 1,460 = 24 murders EACH DAY

And yet our Homeland Security is telling us America is threatened by White, Christian, military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

We're in good hands.