Red Christmas: 16 Killed Throughout Mexico During Holiday Celebrations Agence France-Presse
go to original December 26, 2016

A woman paints the name of a victim of the Mexican drug war onto a body outline as part of a memorial for those killed (AAP)

Update: Mexico Detains 5, Eyes Possible Link to Decapitations (El Universal)

Sixteen people were killed during Christmas holiday celebrations in Mexico’s main drug-trafficking states and six human heads were found in one location, officials said.

A gang slaughtered seven people — including three police officers — at a family celebration in the violent southern state of Guerrero, police told AFP.

...In Chihuahua — which borders the United States and has, like Guerrero, endured brutal drug-related violence — nine people were killed during Christmas celebrations, authorities said.

Five of them died in Ciudad Juarez, including three women who were first tortured and a man whose dismembered remains were found in an abandoned trunk.

In the western state of Michoacan six human heads were found, according to the local prosecutor’s office.

Authorities have not identified the remains, which have been transferred to a forensic office for analysis.

Read the rest at The Guardian

Related: 'A Massive Cemetery': Mexico's Deadly Violence Shows No Signs of Relenting (Business Insider)

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