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Gabriela Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in San Luis Potosi, said the victims found outside the northern city of San Luis Potosi were likely kidnapped as part of a standoff between drug traffickers in the state of Coahuila, which borders San Luis Potosi and the US state of Texas.
The victims are believed to have then been taken to the state of Zacatecas, before being killed and dumped in San Luis Potosi.
The vehicle they were found in had been reported stolen in Coahuila.
“According to the initial information, everything indicates that it was the work of organised crime,” Gonzalez said. She was unable to say whether the men died of gunshot wounds or some other cause.
The bodies were discovered on Thursday after police received an anonymous tip, she said.
San Luis Potosi has been the scene of turf battles between the Zetas gang and allies of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Also in Mexico’s north, attackers armed with assault rifles killed seven men drinking at a sports field on Wednesday night, Sinaloa state prosecutors said in a statement.
Mexico has seen a growing number of mass killings, with the bodies abandoned inside cars or dumped on the side of the road, most in the states of Veracruz (east) and Tamaulipas (north-east).
Last month, 14 bodies were found in a vehicle in Veracruz. Another 49 were found in Nuevo Leon state in May. They had been decapitated and their hands had been cut off.
More than 50 000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since late 2006, when Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president, ordered the military to take the lead in a war against the country’s powerful drug cartels. — Al Jazeera.
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