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Mass grave found in Mexico

07 April 2011 08:20 (UTC +04:00)

Mexico â€“ APA. A mass grave holding a total of 59 bodies was found in Mexicoâ€™s Tamaulipas state, APA reports. The bodies were found near the ranch where drug cartel gunmen less than a year ago massacred 72 migrants who were trying to reach the United States. Las year bodies of 58 men and 14 women were found in Tamaulipas. The victims of the last year massacre were illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil. They were moving toward the United States via Mexico. Mexican authorities said the attack occurred after the migrants refused to work for the cartel. Authorities blamed that massacre on the Zetas drug gang, which is fighting its one-time allies in the Gulf cartel for control of the region.