Seven people died in two separate instances of gangland violence in northern Mexico, officials told Efe on Friday.
Five people were fatally shot before dawn Friday inside a business in the city of Torreon, a source in the Coahuila state Attorney General’s Office said.
Killed were the business owner and his two adult sons, another adult and a 15-year-old boy.
“We have already identified the murdered people and an operation to find the aggressors was launched,” the source told Efe, adding that army soldiers, state and municipal people were conducting the manhunt.
Police in the business and industrial metropolis of Monterrey found two men decapitated on a street in the Arturo B. de la Garza neighborhood.
The bodies of the two victims, both in their mid-20s, were covered with blankets and bound with cable, while their severed heads were left nearby in a bag, a source in the Nuevo Leon state investigations agency told Efe.
Neighborhood residents said they saw several armed men pull up in two vehicles and unload the bodies from one of them and the bag containing the heads from the other before driving away at high speed.
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila have been wracked in recent years by a territorial struggle between the Los Zetas and Gulf drug cartels that has resulted in hundreds of deaths.
Five people were fatally shot before dawn Friday inside a business in the city of Torreon, a source in the Coahuila state Attorney General’s Office said.
Killed were the business owner and his two adult sons, another adult and a 15-year-old boy.
“We have already identified the murdered people and an operation to find the aggressors was launched,” the source told Efe, adding that army soldiers, state and municipal people were conducting the manhunt.
Police in the business and industrial metropolis of Monterrey found two men decapitated on a street in the Arturo B. de la Garza neighborhood.
The bodies of the two victims, both in their mid-20s, were covered with blankets and bound with cable, while their severed heads were left nearby in a bag, a source in the Nuevo Leon state investigations agency told Efe.
Neighborhood residents said they saw several armed men pull up in two vehicles and unload the bodies from one of them and the bag containing the heads from the other before driving away at high speed.
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila have been wracked in recent years by a territorial struggle between the Los Zetas and Gulf drug cartels that has resulted in hundreds of deaths.
Source: EFE
