Eight more people were found dead Thursday
in a vacant lot in the south-east of the Mexican city of Tijuana, bringing the
total of gruesome finds by police to 32 bodies this week alone, dpa reported.
The killings on the border with the United States appeared to be part of
the country's escalating drug war, officials said.
According to the attorney general's office in the northern state of Baja
California, the eight dead showed signs of having been killed by organized
crime.
The authorities found 16 dead bodies of alleged victims of organized crime in
Tijuana Monday, and eight more Tuesday in the same city.
The bodies found Thursday had been left in a vacant lot that separates a
middle-class condominium building from an industrial park, the authorities
noted.
"Here are your people, bricklayer," read a message found by the
bodies.
The bodies found Tuesday had a message that referred to an
"engineer." Police sources later said that this is how drug
traffickers refer to the current boss of the cartel formerly led by the
brothers Arellano Felix.
Tijuana, right on the border with the United States and the stronghold of the
drug gang of the Arellano Felix, is also a key point of access to the northern
country for Mexican migrants, and a city favoured by many US citizens for
weekend night-time fun.