Mexico, October 17: Drug cartel hit men have beheaded 10 rivals, chopped up their bodies and left them in plastic bags on an isolated road in western Mexico.
The body parts filled 18 bags and were dumped in a delivery truck abandoned on a back road in the Pacific state of Guerrero along with a message from the “La Familia” (The Family) cartel that is fighting for smuggling routes in the area.
“La Familia doesn’t kill innocent people. Those who die deserve to die,” read a hand-scrawled message left on top of the bags.
Some of the victims were shot before they were beheaded, state police said in a statement. The Guerrero state attorney general’s office said the 10 bodies were found late on Thursday.
More than 14,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an army-led assault on the cartels soon after taking office in late 2006. Most have been killed as rival drug-gangs battle for key trafficking corridors into the United States.
—–Agencies