Teenager Survives Being Tortured, Shot And Hanged From Bridge

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:44 PM on 9th June 2011

  Dailymail

A teenager with a gunshot wound and signs of torture was found hanging over a motorway with a dead body strung up next to him.

The body of a third man was found below the bridge on the busy road in what appears to have been a hit by a drug cartel.

Witnesses told police that a group of gunmen got out of a vehicle and threw the men over the side of a bridge at around 10am, stopping traffic along one of the busiest routes in Mexico’s third largest city, Monterrey.

All three men had been shot and tortured, and their hands bound with duct tape said a police investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

One man, thought to be in his early 20s, was bound with a mobile phone in his hands, a possible sign that he was considered an informant.

None of the victims have been identified.

On Sunday, two other men, one with a foot cut off, had been hanged from a pedestrian bridge in Monterrey. Both died.

The city has seen a rise in violence over the past two years after warring cartels began fighting for control of drug traffic.

The violence occurred in Michoacan, the same region where the infamous drug cartel La Familia is based. Police discovered 21 bodies piled up at six different sites in the outskirts of the capital Morelia – thought to be the work of the gang.

Attorney general Jesus Montejano said all the murders are connected but that it was too soon to know the motives for the crimes.

The victims appeared to have been asphyxiated – either hanged or drowned – and all showed signs of torture.

In the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, police also unearthed ten bodies this week – two women and eight men – in a mass grave.

 Omar Juarez Lozano, a commissioner of Acapulco, alerted police after smelling a foul odour coming from waste ground in a residential neighbourhood. Police are continuing to excavate the area.

Mexican authorities said a further two men had died after a shooting at a drug rehabilitation centre in the northern city of Torreon.

State prosecutors said two assailants stormed the centre and opened fire. It was not yet clear what was the motive for the attack or which gang was responsible.

Drug cartels are known to use rehab centres to recruit addicts and rival gangs sometimes attack.

Dozens of people have died in shootings at rehab centres across the country. The worst incident left 19 people dead in the city of Chihuahua last summer.

More than 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence across Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against drug cartels when he took office in December 2006.

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