Six bodies pulled from clandestine landfill in Mexico’s Juarez

Police have pulled six bodies wrapped in blankets from a clandestine landfill in Juarez’s lower valley, Mexico, Report informs, referring to the foreign press.

Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Jauregui confirmed the Wednesday afternoon find and said it is linked to recent violent events in the area.

“We do have insights, but we won’t disclose them. We know this has to do with events that happened in Ciudad Juarez recently,” Jauregui said in a Thursday morning news conference on Facebook Live. He added that 98% of homicides in this city still ranked amongst the world’s most dangerous are traced to organized criminal activity.

The landfill is located near the Juarez-Porvenir Highway, an area Sinaloa drug cartel cells are known to control but which of late is being disputed by rival La Linea. An early August rolling gun battle in the new Samalayuca-Guadalupe toll road left at least four men dead.