Mexican Police Find Ten Decapitated Bodies

Updated: Saturday, 09 Jul 2011, 10:25 AM MST
Published : Saturday, 09 Jul 2011, 10:25 AM MST

(NewsCore) - TORREON, Mexico -- Mexican police in the northern city of Torreon said Saturday they found the headless bodies of seven men and three women in the back of an abandoned pickup truck.

Police chief Guillermo Flores said that only one head, belonging to a woman, was found on site, and that the killers had placed it on the truck's hood.

The pickup truck was parked on a highway that goes around Torreon, a city where two major highways heading north to the United States converge.

Mexico has been plagued by a massive crime wave in recent years, with some 37,000 people killed in battles among rival drug cartels and between traffickers and security forces since 2006, when the government launched a military crackdown.

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