{"id":28528,"date":"2024-11-08T06:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2024-11-08T06:31:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:31:35","slug":"police-find-11-bodies-in-pick-up-truck-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/11\/08\/police-find-11-bodies-in-pick-up-truck-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find 11 bodies in pick-up truck in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The remains of 11 people, including two children, have been found inside a vehicle in a southern Mexican city besieged by violence, officials say.<\/b><\/p>\n

The grim discovery was made in the city of Chilpancingo,\u00a0whose mayor was beheaded last month just days after taking the job,<\/a>\u00a0in Guerrero state.<\/p>\n

The identities of the victims are not yet known and the case is being treated as a homicide, the state’s attorney general said.<\/p>\n

Police were called to the scene after an abandoned pick-up truck was reported to authorities on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The truck containing the bodies was found on a highway to Acapulco, which was a destination for the rich and famous in the 1950s and 1960s, but has since become a hotspot for drug-trafficking with a high murder rate.<\/p>\n

Guerrero is one of Mexico’s most violent states because of its location on the Pacific coast smuggling routes. Last year, 1,890 murders were recorded in the state.<\/p>\n

Chilpancingo, a city of about 280,000 people, has long been the scene of turf battles between two drug gangs, the Ardillos and the Tlacos.<\/p>\n

At least six candidates for public office were killed in the state in the run-up to Mexico’s 2 June elections.<\/p>\n

Last month, Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos was found decapitated less than a week after taking office.<\/p>\n

More than 450,000 people have been murdered and tens of thousands have gone missing across Mexico since the government deployed the army to combat drug trafficking in 2006.<\/p>\n

Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has made tackling violent crime a priority. She unveiled a new security plan last month that included improved intelligence-sharing and boosting the National Guard.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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