Mexican gang fight leaves pile of bodies

2 days ago
By Vanessa Buschschlüter, BBC News

Mexican officials investigating videos shared on social media showing bodies in a dumper truck have found 19 corpses in La Concordia, in the southern state of Chiapas. The victims were all male, dressed in black and wearing tactical vests, as worn by members of Mexico's powerful criminal gangs.

Most of the bodies lay inside the back of the truck, with three more found on a dirt track nearby. All had bullet wounds.
Crime cartels have been infiltrating the region, which is criss-crossed by transit routes used by migrants on their trek north to the United States.

The criminal groups extort money from the migrants and also use the routes to smuggle guns, ammunition and drugs from neighbouring Guatemala into Mexico. Officials said they found Guatemalan identity papers on four of the bodies.

Members of the Chiapas prosecutors office had been alerted to a video uploaded to social media on 28 June.
In it, men identifying as members of the Sinaloa cartel show the bodies in the truck, claiming they are members of a rival gang that operates on the border between Guatemala and Mexico.

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