Mutilated corpses, body parts found across Mexico's Monterrey in spate of violence

[Judi Lynn]

Mutilated corpses and severed body parts were found dumped in seven locations across the metropolitan area of the Mexican city of Monterrey on Tuesday.

Reuters
New Delhi,UPDATED: Sep 27, 2023 08:02 IST

Mutilated corpses and severed body parts were found dumped in seven locations across the metropolitan area of the Mexican city of Monterrey on Tuesday in a spate of violence that unnerved residents of Mexico's industrial capital.

Authorities said they are still analyzing the dismembered body parts to try to identify how many people had been killed. Local media have reported there could be up to 12 victims and that some of the body parts were discovered in coolers.

The gruesome discoveries recalled a bloody period in the 2010s when cartel conflicts engulfed the city and bodies were left in the streets or hanging from bridges.

The brutality of the violence had subsided in Monterrey, which was recently chosen to be the home of a new Tesla car plant.

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https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/corpses-body-parts-strewn-across-mexicos-monterrey-spate-violence-2441029-2023-09-27

[Judi Lynn]

1. 7 corpses, 5 bags of body parts found scattered around Mexican city after "acts of disloyalty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 / 9:17 AM / CBS/AP

As many as a dozen bodies were found Tuesday scattered around the northern Mexico industrial hub of Monterrey and its suburbs, including some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country.

Prosecutors in the state of Nuevo Leon did not provide a final tally of the number of dead because some of the bodies had been found in pieces or were dumped in plastic bags.

But prosecutors confirmed at least seven bodies had been found, as well as five bags of body parts.

Gerardo Palacios, the head security official of Nuevo Leon state, said the killings appeared related to an internal dispute within a drug cartel based in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas. The Gulf and Northeast cartels operate there, but he did not specify which he was referring to.

"What we see here is an internal purge within an organized crime group based in Tamaulipas, because of some acts of disloyalty within the group," Palacios said.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corpses-body-parts-found-monterrey-mexico/