Mexico: Bodies Found Dumped In Bags

8:45am UK, Tuesday April 17, 2007

Police have found 17 bodies piled into cars or dumped on the streets in rubbish bags across Mexico.

Officers believe the discoveries come as the latest wave of violence by rival drug gangs spreads across the country.

In the resort city of Cancun, the bodies of three men and two women were found stacked into a truck.

The victims had their heads covered in tape and their hands bound behind their backs.

One of the male victims was in women's clothes.

Police spokesman Antonio Coral said he could not immediately confirm the cause of death.

In Mexico City, police found three corpses in a car parked in a middle-class neighborhood.

Mexico City's attorney general said those deaths appeared to be linked to a turf war between drug gangs as a note was found with the bodies threatening an alleged trafficker called Chango Mendez.

Another two corpses were found in a car in the city of Iguala, about 120 miles south of the capital.

A note in the car threatened Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the alleged head of the Sinaloa Cartel who escaped from a federal prison in 2001.

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