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Also Thursday, authorities in the nearby resort of Acapulco said
four bodies, all strangled to death, were found in a car there.
The 11 bodies were found late Wednesday after police received a
tip about an abandoned pickup truck on the main thoroughfare of
the city of Chilpancingo, the state capital. The city of 300,000
has been the scene of gruesome drug gang violence as two rival
cartels fight for control of the area.
Prosecutors did not specify the ages of the two dead minors but
said that two of the 11 bodies were female. Local media reported
the bodies had been dismembered and stuffed in plastic bags, but
prosecutors did not respond to requests to confirm that.
The highway where they were found is also the main route between
Mexico City and the resort of Acapulco, 60 miles (100
kilometers) to the south.
In early October, the city’s mayor was killed and beheaded just
a week after he took office. Alejandro Arcos took office on Oct.
1 in Chilpancingo, and his beheaded body was found in a pickup
truck a week later, his head placed on the vehicle’s roof.
Two rival drug gangs, known as the Tlacos and the Ardillos, are
fighting for control of the drug and extortion business in the
city.
In 2023, gang violence in Chilpancingo became so brazen that one
of the gangs staged a demonstration of hundreds of people,
hijacked a government armored car, blocked a major highway and
took police hostage to win the release of arrested suspects.
In Acapulco, prosecutors said police got a tip late Wednesday
about a car parked on a downtown street with two dead men with
cords tied around their necks in the back seat. Police found two
more bodies in similar conditions in the trunk of the car.
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