Two men found ‘skinned alive’ in Mexico

April 8th, 2011 2:11 pm ET

Dave Gibson

With assassins killing children in the streets and daily beheadings, it has sadly become rather difficult to shock the people of Mexico amid that country’s ongoing war between the drug cartels. However, a recent discovery in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit has taken the violence to a new level.

The bodies of two men who had been skinned alive were found grotesquely posed in front of a shop in Tepic, Nayarit.

The men’s hearts were also removed.

On Wednesday, six gunmen were killed during a shootout in the streets of Tepic, leaving pedestrians and motorists alike caught in the crossfire.

In the aftermath of the rolling shootout, overturned vehicles, dead bodies, weapons and unexploded grenades littered neighborhoods on the eastside of Tepic.

While no bystanders were killed in the battle, one woman was shot and another struck by shrapnel from an exploding grenade.

No arrests have been made in either of these crimes.

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