6 MEXICANS POLICE 'BEHEADED' HEADS FOUND

TIJUANA, Mexico – The severed heads of six state police investigators were found on a public plaza Wednesday in the northern Mexican state of Durango.
The heads were found in the township of Cuencame a day after the officers were reported kidnapped, state prosecutors' spokesman Ruben Lopez said.

• There was no information on a possible motive for the slayings, but beheadings are a hallmark of Mexico's brutal drug gang violence. Durango, a mountainous, largely rural state, is a major battleground for drug trafficking territory.
• In Tijuana, meanwhile, the bodies of three young men were found in one neighborhood. A fourth body was found outside a hospital and a fifth — whose hands and feet were bound — was found dumped near a gas station.
• The deaths came a day after 12 bodies were found in Tijuana, including four that had been decapitated and four men who were killed in a shootout at a popular seafood restaurant.
• Soldiers arrested six people, including an 18-year-old woman and two teenagers, who allegedly were planning an attack on a pool hall at the same time as the shootout at the restaurant, the military said Wednesday.
• The suspects, except for the teenagers, were paraded in front of reporters. Military officials said they were tied to a gang reputedly led by Teodoro Garcia Simental, who authorities say is waging a bloody turf battle with the Arellano Felix cartel in Tijuana.
• The city, which sits across the border from San Diego, has seen more than 590 deaths in violence apparently related to drug disputes this year.
• In a separate case, police said the dismembered bodies of two men were found in plastic bags Wednesday near the state government's palace in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, a southwestern state also gripped by gang violence. A message found along with the remains read "Understand kidnappers this is going to keep happening."
• Nationwide, more than 14,000 people have died in drug gang violence since President Felipe Calderon sent troops and federal police to fight cartels three years ago.

Source: AP