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Eight corpses found with throats slit in southern Mexico

Saturday, 28 November 2015 5:40 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 28 November 2015 5:41 AM ]

Relatives and friends carry the coffin of a journalist, whose body was found in neighboring Oaxaca State, in Veracruz, Mexico, May 6, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Officials in Mexico say eight bodies with slit throats and signs of torture have been discovered in the country’s violence-plagued southern state of Oaxaca.

“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.

He added that some of the bodies were found inside an abandoned van, while others were near the vehicle with their hands and feet tied.

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.

More than 100,000 people have been killed or gone missing in drug-related violence across Mexico since 2006.

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