Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 31 (IANS/EFE) Five bullet-riddled bodies were found on a rural highway in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, officials said.
Residents of the town of Sainapuchi notified police Wednesday that the bodies had been dumped on the road, Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said, without providing information about the victims’ identity.
Police in Ciudad Juarez, meanwhile, said a man’s head was found in a street in the eastern section of the border city.
The victim’s body was found in a house under construction nearby.
The border state of Chihuahua, home to Ciudad Juarez, is Mexico’s most dangerous state.
Ciudad Juarez, located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, is considered Mexico’s murder capital.
The Sinaloa drug cartel, led by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ (Shorty) Guzman, has been battling Vicente Carrillo Fuentes’s Juarez cartel for control of smuggling routes in the state.
The two cartels have been fighting for control of drug trafficking in Chihuahua’s biggest city, Ciudad Juarez, where more than 3,100 people have died this year in drug-related violence.
