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Mexican Authorities Discover 20 Bodies, some Decapitated, on Sinaloa Highway | News Channel 3-12
- Authorities found the bodies of 20 men on a highway near Culiacán, Sinaloa, including several decapitated victims, with at least four bodies discovered hanging from a bridge.
- The killings occurred amid a violent internal feud between the Sinaloa Cartel factions La Mayiza and Los Chapitos, worsened since July 2024 after Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada's capture.
- Officials found 16 victims with gunshot wounds packed in a van and four bodies dangling from a bridge with severed heads nearby, accompanied by a note from a cartel faction.
- Sinaloa Secretary General Feliciano Castro called the incident a “regrettable situation” linked to insecurity and urged authorities to review strategies while forces work to restore peace.
- This surge of violence reflects an ongoing armed conflict that has caused over 2,000 deaths and hundreds of disappearances, severely impacting Culiacán’s stability and security.
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Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolFour decapitated bodies were found Monday hanging from a bridge in the capital of the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, as part of an upsurge in inter-cartel violence that claimed the lives of nearly 20 people in less than 24 hours, authorities said.
Chihuahua.- After four days of work, the Directorate of Peritical Services and Forensic Sciences finished with the processing of the farm located in the Granjas Polo Gamboa colony, in Ciudad Juárez, where several piled corpses were located; the final figure was 383 bodies: 218 of men, 149 women and 16 that remain undetermined. This was announced by Javier Sánchez Herrera, director of the above-mentioned unit who explained that the processing of …
Twenty bodies, several of them decapitated, have been found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the notorious Sinaloa cartel are at war, prosecutors in the state of Sinaloa said. Four headless bodies were found on the side of the road, while 16 were discovered in an abandoned vehicle. Five heads were found in a bag at the scene. The violence has escalated...
The police found their heads in a bad side of the bridge. The rest of the 16 bodies were left in a car with written messages against one of the battle cartel facies.
Mexican authorities discover 20 bodies, some decapitated, on Sinaloa highway
Prosecutors in northern Mexico’s Sinaloa state are investigating the discovery of 20 male bodies with gunshot wounds – including five that were decapitated – on a bridge over a federal highway.
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