Human head found by tomb of Mexican drug lord Beltran Leyva
Mexico City - A human head and a red flower were found Sunday by the tomb of Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, who was killed by Mexican security forces in a raid last month. The office of the Attorney General of the state of Sinaloa said that an employee of the Jardines del Humaya cemetery in the city of Culiacan, about 1,200 kilometres northwest of Mexico City, had informed them of the finding. Several suspected drug bosses are buried in that cemetery. Mexican authorities did not immediately know the identity of the person whose head was laid on the steps of access to the tomb with a flower in one ear. The rest of the body was found inside a plastic bag in the same cemetery, by the tomb of Gonzalo "El Chalo" Araujo, a boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel who was killed in October 2006. Beltran Leyva, a former boss of the Sinaloa cartel, died on December 16 in a clash with members of the Mexican Navy in Cuernavaca, about 70 kilometres south of Mexico City. The drug lord known as "El Barbas" had created in 2008 a new cartel under his own family name, after splitting with the Sinaloa cartel. He was regarded as one of Mexico's most dangerous drug traffickers. Violence linked to organized crime claimed over 7,700 dead in Mexico in 2009, according to a count made by the daily El Universal.
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