Bodies hung from bridge, trees in Mexico lynching, gang feud
Posted Aug 8, 2019 10:59:17 AM.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican police have found several bodies hanging from an overpass alongside a drug-cartel banner threatening rivals.
Police in the western state of Michoacan have not said how many semi-nude bodies were found hanging by their necks. But photos showed about a half-dozen beneath a banner signed by the Jalisco drug cartel.
The discovery Thursday morning in the Michoacan city of Uruapan marked a return to the grisly, showy killings carried out by cartels at the height of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war, when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways.
And in another part of Mexico, an angry crowd beat and hung five suspected kidnappers, leaving some of their bodies dangling from trees.
The men had been detained by about 180 villagers in the central state of Puebla.
The Associated Press
