24 killings in 3 days another severed head abandoned on streets of Juarez--

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat   Material from El Diario de Juarez

A second severed head has been found this week on the streets of Juarez,  as drug violence continues unabated in that border city.

Police on Tuesday were alerted to a plastic bag containing human remains on a street corner in a neighborhood east of the Juarez airport. The remains turned out to be a severed head, according to El Diario de Juarez.

A man was killed and his mutilated body was located at two different points south of the city.

People who walked on Zaragoza Boulevard at the height of Ivy Street, located a black plastic bag with the head of a man and reported it to the authorities.

Minutes later, calls were received from guides who circulated on José Mateos Torres Avenue and Cártamo Street, where there was a body that lacked the head.

On Monday, another head had been abandoned on busy Zaragoza Boulevard; police later found the body on a different street corner, also east of the airport, the newspaper reported.

Twenty-four murders were recorded in Juarez during the first three days in March, and authorities attribute that to the ripples of a recent jail transfer involving the leader of the “Mexicles” gang — the enforcement arm of the Sinaloa cartel — at the end of February.