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Police Chief Beheaded in North Mexico
 Agence France-Presse
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March 26, 2010
| | Mexican Federal Police stand guard in 2009. The headless bodies of a police chief and another man presumed to be a police officer turned up in the trunk of a police car in north Mexico, local justice officials said on Friday. (AFP/Luis Acosta) | |
Monterrey, Mexico – The headless bodies of a police chief and another man presumed to be a police officer turned up in the trunk of a police car in north Mexico, local justice officials said on Friday.
The bodies of the police chief of Agualeguas town, in Nuevo Leon state, and the apparent officer were found in the abandoned car on Friday, prosecutor Alejandro Garza told journalists.
"We assume that the crime is linked to organized crime, due to the savagery of the killing," Garza said.
Mexico's powerful drug gangs often carry out beheadings and torture to send messages to their enemies, and deadly attacks occur almost daily amid a military clampdown on organized crime.
Agualeguas is 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of state capital Monterrey, which has seen rising drug attacks in recent weeks, including clashes between drug gangs and security forces that left two students dead in crossfire, and road blocks set up by suspected drug gang members.
Clashes in a nearby town on Thursday left six suspected drug gang members dead.
More than 15,000 have died in suspected drug violence in the past three years in Mexico despite the deployment of some 50,000 soldiers across the country.
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