01 October,2016 01:38 PM IST | | Agencies
Authorities have recovered 12 bodies in a western Mexican river near a lake popular among US tourists, as suspicion about the deaths turned toward two drug gangs
Guadalajara: Authorities have recovered 12 bodies in a western Mexican river near a lake popular among US tourists, as suspicion about the deaths turned toward two drug gangs.
Three bodies were found in the Lerma river yesterday, after nine others were recovered in the first three days of the week, said Eduardo Almaguer, the top prosecutor in Jalisco state. "Twelve bodies have been found in the Lerma river and its mouth at Lake Chapala," Almaguer told reporters.
The nine other bodies showed "show signs of violence", he said. A police officer said at least two of those victims had bullet wounds and two others were mutilated.
"If two criminal groups participated in this situation, our obligation is to arrest them," Almaguer said, without naming the gangs. "We don't have any report of abduction, which is why the process of identification and the prosecution of this crime have been slow," he said.
