Los Cabos area (from Wikipedia)
Six bodies were found hanging from bridges on Wednesday in Mexico’s Baja California, a region known for its pristine beaches and popular with foreign tourists, authorities said.
The bodies, spread across three bridges – two on each, according to the local prosecutor, were discovered along highways leading to international airports in La Paz, San Jose del Cabo, and Cabo San Lucas, nicknamed as the Los Cabos area.
The victims have not yet been identified.
Grisly killings were once rare in the country’s tourism hotspots but have risen in recent years as organized crime has grown.
The Los Cabos area is a massive international Pacific resort area popular with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans.
A total of 409 people were murdered in the area from January through October – more than double for all of 2016.
Drug gangs are fighting over routes on which they move drugs to the United States, as well as over turf on which they sell drugs to tourists from overseas.
More than 196,000 people have been killed in Mexico since late 2006 when the federal government launched a controversial anti-drug offensive led by the military. /kga