Seven mutilated bodies found in Mexican tourist port: official

Seven headless, mutilated bodies have been found in a taxi abandoned near the seaside resort of Manzanillo in western Mexico, apparent victims of the country's epidemic of drug violence, local officials said Sunday. "They were mutilated, apparently decapitated, and one of the victims was a woman," the port city's police chief Carlos Heredia told AFP. The past six months have seen an increase in killings linked to disputes within the Jalisco cartel, police records show.

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