
Eight people from the same family, including two teenagers, were kidnapped by masked gunmen and decapitated in northern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.
The bodies were found after a ninth member of the Martinez family escaped Sunday's abduction near Casa Quemada, in the state of Chihuahua, and alerted the authorities, prosecutors said.
The family was traveling in a vehicle when it was kidnapped by armed men wearing masks and dressed in military-like fatigues, the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office said.
The bodies of three men between the ages of 18 and 25 were found on a rural road on Wednesday.
A day earlier, authorities recovered five other bodies that had been dumped in different parts of Casa Quemada, including those of two 15-year-olds.
Some witnesses said the family had gone to the mountain region to cut wood while others claimed that the relatives cared for drug fields.
The mass murder took place in a region known as the Golden Triangle, which includes the states of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango, where drug cartels grow marijuana and opium poppies.
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