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Tijuana: Nine decapitated bodies were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana on Sunday believed to be the result of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said.
The heads were discovered in plastic bags near the bodies in a poor neighbourhood of Tijuana, across from San Diego, Baja California state police said in a statement. Three police identification cards were also found at the site.
The statement gave no motive for the killings, but they came as Mexico's drug cartels wage a bloody fight for smuggling routes and against government forces, dumping beheaded bodies onto streets, carrying out massacres and even tossing grenades into a crowd of Independence Day revellers - an attack that killed eight people in September.
More than 4,000 people have died so far this year in drug-related violence in Mexico. Across Tijuana on Sunday, attacks by gunmen killed five people in addition to the nine beheaded bodies. State police said nine more people were killed in attacks on Saturday. In one, gunmen killed a 4-year-old child in an attack on a grocery store.
Baja California has suffered a rising wave of homicides, which officials blame on a struggle between rival cells of the Arellano-Felix drug cartel.
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