The bodies of nine tortured and murdered men have been found dangling from a bridge in northern Mexico, local security sources said.
The discovery was made days after one of the country’s most wanted drug lords was captured in the same state.
The corpses were found in the US-Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, home to one of the lucrative drug-smuggling routes coveted by the cartels and near Laredo, Texas.
The head of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, Jorge Costilla, alias “El Coss,” was caught in the Tamaulipas port city of Tampico on Wednesday.
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The cartel has been weakened over the past couple of years by a turf war with the Zetas, a gang formed by army deserters which once acted as enforcers for it. – (Reuters)