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Police in Mexico have discovered 100 corpses at a warehouse used by a notorious organized crime group.
The grim discovery was made following the arrest of four alleged members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
The Ixtapan de la Sal Regional Prosecutor's Office raided the warehouse - thought to be used as a dumping ground for victims of the group - in the municipality of Tenango del Valle.
The search was a joint operation with the Ministery of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security, headed up by Elohim Díaz Jiménez, reported Noventa Grados.
A forensic team and mobile laboratory were dispatched to the scene in the La Joya neighborhood to search for the remains of the deceased.
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The municipality of Tenango del Valle has become a hotbed for cartel and vigilante violence (Thelmadatter/WIkipedia)Several grisly discoveries have been made in Mexico over recent weeks.
On Monday, prosecutors announced that the bodies of five men had been discovered in a village north of the formerly popular holiday destination of Acapulco.
Local media reported that the victims had been hacked up and wrapped in plastic bags.
Prosecutors also announced that two more men had been killed in the neighbouring town of Xaltianguis.
The town has become a hotbed for violence, with warring groups and vigilantes fighting over the territory.
Some of the groups are believed to have ties to drug cartels.
In 2019, Xaltianguis was placed under siege by a collection of armed vigilantes who were determined to drive out a rival group that had arrived in the town.
The vigilantes began blowing up cars with gas cylinders inside and ended up killing two of their foes, dismembering the body of one.
Acapulco's tourism industry has taken a dive over recent years as bloody drug-related violence has swept the streets.
Last month, eight people were killed in the beachside town, including five men who were shot dead in a bar.
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In the summer of 2022, the leader of the guild of restaurants, bars and nightclubs, Jesus Rivera, was also shot to death.
Then, in November last year, three bodies washed up on a beach in Acapulco.
They showed signs of torture.
The violence has also spread to seemingly safe urban areas in Mexico's major cities.
In December, two young brothers were murdered in the reputable neighborhood of Roma Norte.
The murdered brothers, Jorge, 35, who was a musician, and Andrés Tirado, 27, an actor, were discovered bound hand and foot in a cellar, with their heads wrapped in packing tape.
The slayings prompted outrage from the community and the authorities vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
"We lament and condemn these acts,” said Mexico City’s mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, on Twitter following the murders.
“There are people arrested and this morning the attorney general’s office will be providing information on the progress in this painful homicide.”
Police announced that three people had been detained in connection to the killings.
Mexico has logged more than 340,000 violent deaths since the military launched a widespread anti-drug operation in December 2006.