Mexican Drug Violence



Tamaulipas, Mexico
(Mexico City)

Nine bodies, the majority of them dismembered, were found inside an SUV with Texas tags in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, state officials said.

The grisly discovery was made Sunday night in the community of Santa Clara, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office and the Public Safety Secretariat said in a joint statement.

The Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Tamaulipas and smuggling routes into the United States.

Police received a tip from a caller that the bodies were inside a GMC Yukon SUV, the state agencies said.

“The remains of nine unidentified males, the majority of them dismembered, were found inside the vehicle,” the AG’s office and the secretariat said.

The bodies were taken to the morgue, where specialists will try to identify them.

Note that 1,025 people died from drug-related violence in March 2013 and nearly 4,000 deaths have been recorded since the beginning of last December.