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Associated Press2 severed heads found in Mexico City accompanied by message claiming to be from drug cartel
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, October 3, 12:09 PM
MEXICO CITY — Police in Mexico City found two severed human heads on a street near a major military base Monday, a grisly tactic of warring drug gangs that has long affected other parts of the country while largely sparing the capital.
Decapitations are frequently carried out by gangs in drug-violence-plagued cities such as the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco and in northern Mexico, often to intimidate or threaten rivals.
But it was the first multiple decapitation in the capital since January 2008, when two heads were found near the city’s international airport. Two heads were also found in the same vicinity in December 2007. Those killings were believed to be related to a drug shipment that had been seized at the airport.
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