{"id":15760,"date":"2016-11-25T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T10:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=15760"},"modified":"2016-11-25T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T10:29:42","slug":"severed-heads-32-bodies-found-mexican-cartel-mass-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/severed-heads-32-bodies-found-mexican-cartel-mass-graves.html","title":{"rendered":"Severed heads and 32 bodies found in Mexican cartel mass graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Severed heads and 32 bodies found in Mexican cartel mass graves<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Investigators exhumed the remains of 31 men and one woman from a hillside in Zitlala, where turf wars between rival criminal gangs are common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The discoveries are terrible&#8221; a security spokesperson said, while the search for any additional hidden graves continued in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">No arrests have been made so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The remains were found in 17 different pits near the village of Pochahuixco between Tuesday and Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">State security spokesman Roberto Alvarez told the AFP news agency the graves had been discovered following an anonymous tip, which led to the discovery of a kidnap victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">AFP also reported that four heads were found &#8220;inside a cooler&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The town lies in the state of Guerrero, which has a very high rate of violent crime, and is also a significant opium producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It reported more than 1,800 homicides between January and October this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Residents in another town, Tixtla, discovered nine decapitated bodies earlier in the week. Investigators are checking if the remains match the heads discovered in Pochahuixco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The remains have been sent to the state capital to be identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-38100270<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/severed-heads-32-bodies-found-mexican-cartel-mass-graves.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severed heads and 32 bodies found in Mexican cartel mass graves Investigators exhumed the remains of 31 men and one woman from a hillside in Zitlala, where turf wars between rival criminal gangs are common. &#8220;The discoveries are terrible&#8221; a security spokesperson said, while the search for any additional hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9882,9883,9881],"class_list":["post-15760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mexico-mass-grave-severed-heads","tag-nine-human-heads-and-32-bodies-found-in-mexican-cartel","tag-severed-heads-and-32-bodies-found-in-mexican-cartel-mass-graves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}