MEXICO CITY, Mexico: Nine bodies were found Wednesday in a northern Mexican state reeling from a wave of drug cartel violence, authorities said, the second such discovery in as many days.
A murder investigation was launched after the bodies of nine men were found in the town of Morelos in Zacatecas, the state prosecutor’s office said.
It happened a day after nine bodies were found on a street in the city of Fresnillo, also in Zacatecas state.
Messages addressed to a rival crime group were found on those corpses, authorities said.
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They were dumped near a market two days after gang members blocked roads and set fire to vehicles in response to the capture of 13 suspected criminals.
Fresnillo is a city that its residents consider the most dangerous in Mexico.
Around 450,000 people have been murdered across the country since the government launched a controversial drug offensive involving the military in 2006, according to official figures.
