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Twenty-three people were murdered Saturday in the beach resort of Acapulco, including 15 men who were found decapitated near a shopping center, authorities said. Police responding to a report of a fire shortly after midnight said they instead found five abandoned vehicles and the bodies of the 15 beheaded men. Messages whose contents were not disclosed were left with the bodies. The newspaper Reforma, however, said the notes were signed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the fugitive leader of the Sinaloa cartel, who warned rivals against encroaching on his turf. Authorities would not confirm the report. An additional six murder victims were found inside a taxi near a supermarket, and two other men were murdered in other parts of the city, police said in a statement. The latest killings bore the hallmarks of the vicious gangland slayings that have terrorized large areas of Mexico as drug cartels battle it out among themselves and with security forces. More than 30,000 people have been killed since 2006 when the government of President Felipe Calderon launched a major military crackdown against the drug gangs. Last year alone, a record 12,000 murders were blamed on the drug violence. AFP |
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