21 Die in Drug-Related Violence in Northern Mexico

A wave of drug-related violence claimed the lives of 17 people in Nuevo Leon state and four others in Coahuila state, both located in northern Mexico, officials said.

Military personnel found the bodies of three adults and a minor at a car wash in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila.

The victims, who were gunned down, were found in Postal Cerritos, a neighborhood on the east side of Saltillo, the Coahuila Public Safety Secretariat said.

Three men, ranging in age from 18 to 25, were kidnapped and murdered in Santa Catarina, a city in Nuevo Leon state, police said.

Mexican drug cartels often kidnap people and later kill them, with no ransom ever demanded.

Two bodies were discovered inside an SUV at kilometer 24 of the Libramiento Noreste highway in the city of Escobedo.

Gunmen killed a woman outside her house in Escobedo, the Nuevo Leon State Investigations Agency, or AEI, said.

The mutilated body of a man, meanwhile, was found in Cienega de Flores, a city north of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon, the AEI said.

Two dismembered bodies were discovered in Pesqueria, a city in central Nuevo Leon, the AEI said.

Two men were killed and a woman was wounded by gunmen in Montemorelos, a city in the southern part of Nuevo Leon, officials said.

Two people were murdered in another drug-related incident in the city of Apodaca.

Gunmen traveling in several vehicles killed three men and a woman in Monterrey’s Alfonso Reyes district on Wednesday afternoon, an AEI spokesman said.

 

Source: EFE