Chapitos vs Guanos: Violence Unleashed in Sinaloa, 11 killed on Wednesday

Posted by Char for Borderland Beat from Sinaloa Press

Violence rips in Sinaloa as “Chapitos” war against  “Guanos”  for control.

During the last hours 11 people have been found or executed, the majority in the state capital, among the victims is a woman.

There were 8 dead in the city of Culiacán and 3 in  Sinaloa de Leyva.

In the early hours of Wednesday,  the body of a man wrapped in blankets was located by the International Highway Mexico 15, at the height of El Limón de Los Ramos

Later another man was found in the Derivadora Dam of the Culiacán River, he was half naked, and he had visible marks of torture, his hands handcuffed and with a shot to the head.

Later a person was found inside an abandoned house in Lomas de Guadalupe, the body was in an advanced state of decomposition so it was not identified and it was not possible to determine the precise cause of his death.

In the afternoon, two men were attacked with bullets with AR-15 rifles when they arrived at the Mariscos El Pelón, located on the road to Sinaloa, at the height of the Hidalgo colony, one body was inside the vehicle in which they were traveling and the another inside the establishment.

Also in Culiacán, the bodies of three young persons, two men and one woman, were located  in the Cañadas sector, their hands were tied and their faces covered with tan tape. One of the bodies was half naked.

And in the community of Ruíz Cortinez, belonging to the municipality of Sinaloa, three bodies were located inside a vehicle abandoned by a dirt road next to farm.