Mexico, September 23: Eleven more bodies were dumped on roads in and around Mexico’s eastern port city of Veracruz on Thursday, two days after 35 bodies were left under a busy underpass nearby, local officials said.
The grim discoveries came amid a spate of violence in Veracruz city and the eponymous state and coincided with a national meeting of prosecutors there.
On Thursday, police found bodies dumped in three areas of the city, including four on a road in the city center, according to an official from the state prosecutor’s office, who declined to be named.
Extra police and soldiers were deployed in the city for a conference of prosecutors and legal officials from across the country, to end Friday. Veracruz officials say most of the 35 found dead Tuesday in the southern district of Boca del Rio had criminal records.
Local media said a message lying near those bodies carried threats to the Zetas, a violent drug gang set up by ex-elite soldiers which is fighting for control of trafficking routes in the area.
A top Interior Ministry official said Tuesday’s killings were likely a revenge attack between criminal gangs.
–Agencies–