Thread: Six bodies, three beheaded, found in Tijuana and Tecate

Six bodies, three beheaded, found in Tijuana and Tecate


By Sandra Dibble (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer
12:12 p.m. March 3, 2009

TIJUANA — The discovery of six bodies Tuesday - four in Tijuana and two in Tecate - has shattered weeks of relative calm in the region.

The beheaded bodies of three men were found at about 8 a.m. in Playas de Tijuana in an empty lot near the bullring, accompanied by a message, according to the Baja California Attorney General's Office. The content of the message was not revealed. The victims appeared to be between 30 and 40, a spokeswoman said.

A fourth male corpse was found wrapped in a blanket off a ramp leading to the Mesa de Otay section of the city about 9:30 a.m., authorities reported.

The bodies of two women were in the Colonia Nueva Indu section of Tecate, according to the Attorney General's Office.

The killings, apparently the work of organized crime, ends a sharp drop in violent crime that authorities said began in mid-January. Last year, Tijuana registered more than 800 killings, many of them linked to organized crime.

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Bodies of Teen Girls Found in Tijuana

NBCSanDiego.com
updated 2 hours, 59 minutes ago


Any hopes for peace south of the border was shattered Tuesday, according to a published report.

Six bodies were found in Tijuana and Tecate, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Two teenage girls' bodies turned up south of Tecate's downtown area, three men's headless bodies were discovered not far from the border in Tijuana, and the blanket-wrapped body of a man was found in Tijuana, according to the paper.

Some officials are speculating that the deaths are linked to a string of arrests.

"It would be a likely hypothesis, but we don't yet have the evidence to confirm it," the head of the Baja California Attorney General's Office in Tijuana told the paper.

The three men had been decapitated, according to the Union-Tribune, and their limbs were cut off.


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