2 Grim Discoveries in Chihuahua -19 Dead Bodies

Borderland Beat

Eight bodies were found Saturday morning.  The discovery was made in a field approximately 100 meters off the highway between the towns of Delicias and Satevó, in Chihuahua.

It is believed that some of bodies may be those who were kidnapped Friday night by armed gunmen who abducted three from the towns of Jimenez Parral and two from Valle de Allende.

Gunman arriving with a convoy of eight trucks executed five men Friday night at different locations in the space of half an hour in Meoqui... After seven in the evening, three men were shot inside a vehicle in the plaza of Guadalupe Victoria and minutes later a 17 old year was killed near community  El Torreon, in the same municipality. Another man was later assassinated  at his home, located in the neighborhood of Genaro Vazquez, and according to early reports, the five murders were allegedly committed by the same armed group who allegedly called themselves "Death Commando."
The spokesman for the state attorney general, Carlos Gonzalez Estrada, confirmed the incidents and also confirmed that the eight victims were found half naked, having been killed  from shot to the head in another location, then transported and discarded in this manner near kilometer 46, near the turn off  to Rancho San Miguel in Chihuahua.. 

He clarified that they were investigating whether the victims are some of the same subjects kidnapped by gunmen on Friday in the towns Jiménez and Valle de Allende.

There are reports of a message being left with the bodies but no details have been indicated.

The forensic medical examiner  transported the bodies for autopsy and identification. (Semefo)

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So far the abandoned dead men have been identified as:


Luis Gerardo Baca Ortega
Justin Alejandro Carrazco Vásquez
José Ángel Morales Alferes
Fernando Campos Rodríguez
Edgar Ulises Moreno Peña
José Carlos Medina Padilla
Edgar Armando Sánchez Delgado
Ventura Ismael Guevara Rodríguez

In another discovery, they found the remains of 11 men who were apparently shot about two years ago and buried in a remote area, the AG's office said. The bones and clothing were found in three different clandestine graves, the AG's office said.

Chihuahua has been one of the states most affected by the wave of drug-related violence in Mexico.

More than 11,000 people have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, since 2008.

About 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the past six years, the majority of them in shootouts involving members of rival drug cartels. EFE

Sources: El Diario, La Opinion, Tierra, Latino News, Monitor de Parral