More headless found as Mexican drug wars rage

Updated Sunday, July 6, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

More headless found as Mexican drug wars rage

MEXICO CITY -- Three decapitated corpses were discovered in Mexico’s northwestern Sinaloa state Friday, bring to a total of seven headless bodies found and 11 police assassinated in a bloody week of often drug-related violence in the country, officials and news reports said. The three headless corpses were found in a car in Culiacan, Sinaloa, together with a note critical of one of the Beltran Leyva brothers, heads of a faction of the divided Sinaloa drug cartel, state judicial officials said in a statement.

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