Narco Traffickers Drop Warnings, and Bodies, from the Skies Over Mexico Joshua Partlow - The Washington Post
go to original April 13, 2017

In a bizarre incident, the Sinaloa State of Mexico witnessed what appeared to be a man being thrown off from a low flying plane, landing atop a hospital roof. (Daily Bhaskar)

Even by the macabre standards of Mexican narcotics traffickers, this week's bizarre aerial events seem to be elevating the conflict to new frontiers.

Around dawn, a low-flying airplane buzzing over the Eldorado area in the coastal state of Sinaloa — the old stomping grounds of drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — started tossing out bodies. An estimated three corpses came crashing down in the area, according to Mexican news reports, including one that landed on the roof of a local public clinic. That semi-clothed person, with signs of torture, had a bag over its head, Milenio news agency reported.

"It is a man, but we don't know more," said Antonio Garcia, a spokesman for the Mexican Institute of Social Security, which administers the clinic. "The impact of the fall makes it more difficult to be able to identify him or the wounds he suffered."

There were conflicting reports about where the other bodies might have landed.

...Two days before the bodies fell, a helicopter dumped hundreds of what were described as "narco-fliers" onto a suburb east of Mexico City. That strange display of propaganda was caught on video by cellphone cameras, showing plumes of fliers fluttering down into the streets of Texcoco as the helicopter circled overhead.

After the news of the bizarre incident broke, twitteratis were seen questioning if it was an United Airline flight.



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