5 decapitated bodies found in Mexico

Associated Press

MORELIA, Mexico

Prosecutors found five decapitated bodies in western Mexico on Saturday, with a hand-lettered sign linking the killings to a drug cartel.

The bodies were found in two different locations on the outskirts of Morelia, the state capital of Michoacan.

At one spot, the bodies of three of the men were found lying against the curb of a traffic circle. The state attorney general’s office said their heads had been cut off and placed next to the bodies.

A little later Saturday, the bodies of two other men were found in another community on the outskirts of Morelia. Both had been decapitated, and the heads were placed a little farther away. A bloody kitchen knife was found on a nearby road.

Michoacan has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Caballeros Templarios cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, known by its initials in Spanish as “CJNG.”

A hand-lettered sign left with some of the bodies read “We are here now ... respectfully, CJNG.”