Fox News
Expand
Browse All Video
Watch Live

You're watching...

23 murdered in border city battle between drug cartels

Details

  • Description

    Bodies left hanging from bridge or decapitated

  • Duration 2:08
  • Date

Clips

Also in this playlist...

Editor's Picks

Auto-advance: ON

Auto-advance
View All

Transcript

This transcript is automatically generated

Turning to other news now 23 more people have been killed in Mexico's violent turf war between rival drug cartels.

The bodies were left hanging over a bridge or decapitated.

And dumped on the side of the road in a Mexican border city.

Casey Stegall is life sentence now with the very latest on the story Casey.

Yellow -- very gruesome scene fourteen of those bodies in fact were dumped at City Hall in new wave mobile radio that is south of Texas and it is about two and a half hours south.

Of San Antonio for some perspective we want to warn you that the pictures were about to show you could be graphic the victims their heads.

Left inside of a cooler and out of the nine bodies that were left hanging on the side of -- bridge.

That included four women.

Local authorities have not revealed a motive however there has been an increase in violence there recently a renewed turf war between two.

Powerful drug cartels.

Earlier this week near Veracruz which is in the southern part of the peninsula a passer by spotted four plastic bags.

Each containing the bodies of three journalists and one of the journalists girlfriend's.

Vera Cruz is cartel battle ground it's one of Mexico's largest ports and the cartels are fighting for control.

It is the same place where a lot of people remember last fall 35 bodies were dumped.

Right in the middle of a main highway in rush hour traffic.

Now funerals war were held Thursday for those victims of Mexico is right now one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists.

In Veracruz alone at least seven have been killed in recent months.

One happening less than a week ago a magazine correspondent was found beaten and strangled.

The working condition for press there is characterized.

As similar to a war zone.

By the way for more perspective just within the last five years since the drug war really heated up in that country.

Nearly 50000.

Innocent people.

Have been killed them such an awful story -- Casey thank you very much for that update.

Load More