Monday, September 15, 2008

Mexican Massacre

TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican police said on Friday they have found the bodies of 24 men who were bound and shot to death execution-style outside the capital. The bodies found Friday represent one of the largest single mass executions in Mexico in recent memory. Police and soldiers were at the scene of the crime in a rural area just west of Mexico City, which has been marked by gangland slayings and land disputes between farming communities. The killings are "without doubt" linked to organized crime, said Alberto Bazbaz, the attorney general of Mexico State, which borders Mexico City. Mexico's drug cartels and criminal gangs have been slaying their rivals in increasingly large numbers, and publicly dumping their corpses, although not in the numbers seen on Friday. On Aug. 28, 12 decapitated bodies were found outside Merida, the capital of Yucatan state.

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