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Mexico: Six severed heads found on road
Six severed heads have been found on a road in central Mexico, in an area not normally associated with cartel authorities made the discovery early on Tuesday morning on a route that links the broadly peaceful states of Puebla and have not given a motive for the killings or said which of the criminal groups operating in Mexico might have carried them media has reported that a blanket was left at the scene with a message issuing a warning to rival gangs and apparently signed by a group called "La Barredora", meaning the sweeper.
It is the same name as a little-known criminal group operating in the western state of Guerrero but it isn't clear if they were behind the attack or local prosecutor's office said the heads found in Tlaxcala were those of men and it has launched an investigation into the killings, according to AFP news well as drug-trafficking, there is an issue in the region with fuel smuggling, known as "huachicolea", which generates billions of dollars a year for the groups behind the illegal far, federal authorities have not commented on the come amid a major crackdown by the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum on fentanyl and Tlaxcala are not prone to the kind of extreme cartel violence prominent in other parts on the June, the bodies of 20 people - four of them decapitated - were found in Sinaloa, a state gripped by gang Mexican youths were also killed in a shooting at a Catholic Church festivity in the central state of Guanajuato in between cartels has surged in recent years, with hundreds of thousands of people killed and tens of thousands missing since the government first began to use the Mexican military against gangs in 2006.
