State security forces and soldiers cordoned off the areas where the bodies
were found and gave no immediate comment.
Nuevo Laredo, the main road trade crossing from Mexico into the United States,
is regularly the scene of vicious disputes between the Zetas drug gang – set
up by ex-elite soldiers-turned-hitmen in the 1990s – and their former
employers the Gulf cartel, now believed to be allied to the Sinaloa cartel
of billionaire fugitive Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Last month the dismembered remains of 14 men were found inside a van left near
Nuevo Laredo city hall. Days afterwards a car exploded outside police
headquarters.
Mexico has seen a rise in gangland-style violence blamed for more than 50,000
deaths since the start of a nationwide military crackdown on organized crime
in December 2006.
In neighboring Veracruz state, further south on the Gulf of Mexico, security
forces Thursday found the dismembered bodies of two missing news
photographers and two others, just days after a magazine reporter was killed
in the same state.
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