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Thursday, January 10, 2019, 16:21
Mexico finds 20 bodies, 17 of them burned, near US border
By Reuters
Thursday, January 10, 2019, 16:21 By Reuters

Members of the local attorney's office cordon off on Sept 17, 2018, at the site where a mass grave was found in El Arbolillo, Alvarado municipality, in the Mexican southeastern state of Veracruz, a region hit by bloody drug cartel turf wars. (VICTORIA RAZO / AFP)

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities discovered 20 bodies on Wednesday, 17 of them burned, near the city of Nuevo Laredo, close to the US border, a security official said. 

Five burned vehicles were also found near the bodies in the town of Miguel Aleman

Five burned vehicles were also found near the bodies in the town of Miguel Aleman, across the Rio Grande from Texas in the northern state of Tamaulipas, the official said in a statement, without providing details. 

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Tamaulipas has become one of the most violent states in Mexico, convulsed by gangs fighting to control drug trafficking, extortion rackets and the exploitation of migrants. 

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Hundreds of bodies in unmarked graves have been found in recent years in the aftermath of the decade-long drug war led by the military to battle the cartels, which led to increasingly bloody turf wars. 

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