KABUL: (Middle East Press) Eight corpses with slit throats and signs of torture were discovered in a southern Mexican state of Oaxaca gripped by drug violence, officials said.
“Farmers who had been going to work around the town of Cosolapa found the bodies and alerted us,” said Juan Mateo Rodriguez, an Oaxaca State police deputy, who briefed reporters on the case on Friday.
Their hands and feet were also tied, said Rodriguez.
Several bodies were inside an abandoned van, while others were near the vehicle.
The corpses have not yet been identified, authorities said in a statement. Police are still investigating the incident, but they believe that this was just another case of drug-related violence across the state.
Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s poorest states, has seen an increase in violence as rival cartels fight over the control of lucrative drug trafficking routes to the United States. Drug gangs routinely dump bodies by the side of the streets in Mexico.
