4 WOMEN STRANGLED AND TOTURED TO DEATH IN NORTHERN MEXICO

The bodies of four women who had been strangled and tortured were found in a field in Torreon, a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, prosecutors said.
Police and soldiers taking part in "Operation Safe Laguna," which is targeting drug traffickers, found the bodies Wednesday in Metalurgica, a neighborhood in the southern section of Torreon, Coahuila Attorney General's Office spokesmen told Efe.
The victims have not been identified, but investigators estimate that they range in age from 18 to 30, a spokesman for the Laguna bureau of the AG's office said.
A tourniquet fashioned from yellow plastic rope and a piece of wood was apparently used to strangle the women, whose bodies bear signs of torture, the AG's office spokesman said.

• Torreon is in the La Laguna region, which includes parts of Coahuila and neighboring Durango state. The region is at the center of a brutal turf war between the Los Zetas and Sinaloa drug cartels.
• Cartel enforcers have carried out massacres and attacked bars and media outlets.
• The government deployed Federal Police units and army troops in the region in an effort to stem the drug-related violence.

Source: Fox News