35 bodies found in Mexican roadway

Investigators say they have a video that may hold clues to how unidentified men managed to drive two open-back trucks filled with 35 bodies through rush-hour traffic and then abandon them, blocking traffic and leaving bodies on the highway. Police in the east coast state of Veracruz found the abandoned trucks and the bodies near a shopping mall in the municipality of Boca del Rio on Tuesday. The video may show that the two trucks were guarded by other cars that could have doubled as getaway vehicles, Veracruz Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said Wednesday in a radio interview. He did not say where the video came from. Investigators also are looking into whether police colluded with the people who discarded the bodies, he told W Radio. The dead included 12 women and 23 men. As of Wednesday, morning, 95% of the bodies had been identified through databases, Escobar Perez said. Most of them had criminal records, he said. One of them was identified as a local policeman who disappeared about 15 days ago, he said. In another interview, the attorney general said that the victims died of suffocation. Only one had a bullet wound, he said. The state of the bodies led investigators to deduce they died shortly before being abandoned, Escobar Perez said. The attorney general on Tuesday described the grisly discovery as "unprecedented." "It hasn't happened before in the state of Veracruz," he said. The two trucks were abandoned in the middle of the highway, witnesses said. Their gates were open and bodies had fallen out. Hours later, bloodstains remained on the road as troops stood guard. Boca del Rio is in Veracruz state's most populated area. It has become a frequent site of clashes between armed groups as drug-related violence grows. Earlier Tuesday, 32 inmates escaped from three prisons in Veracruz, authorities said. At least 14 of them had been apprehended by Tuesday night. Escobar Perez said none of the bodies that had been identified by Tuesday night appeared connected with the prison breaks. More info: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/world/americas/mexico-bodies/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

• 2011-09-21T17:09:19+00:00
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