GRISLY DISCOVERY: COPS FIND 44 MUTILATED CORPSES STUFFED IN 120 BIN BAGS

Guadalajara – The bodies of 44 missing people have been found in a well in an area of Mexico notorious for brutal drug cartel executions.

The grim discovery was made after locals in Jalisco state complained of a foul smell and when the well was dug up the remains were found stuffed into 119 black bags.

Jalisco is home to one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug gangs and this is the second major find of bodies there this year.

According to the BBC, most of the bodies were cut up, so authorities had to piece together different parts in order to identify them.

The corpses were discovered near a half built stable on a nine acre site surrounded by trees, which local media said had been abandoned years ago.

For several days there was “a plague of flies” around the well and the smell became unbearable after the September rains.

Local media report that spokesman for the local authorities said “many of those we have found in the graves have a criminal record”.

FOUL SMELL

The site is 35 minutes drive from Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state, a city where so far this year more than 15 burial sites, some holding dozens of bodies, have been discovered.

Last month, the Jalisco drug cartel, which is among Mexico’s most powerful, released shocking footage of a rival gangster being interrogated and then slaughtered.

A group of ten alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel(CJNG) are seen wearing military-style combat gear and armed with rifles as they surround a captured man from a rival drug gang.

According to local media reports, the half-naked man is said to be Aldolfo Mendoza Valencia, aka ‘El Michoacano’, who is one of the leaders of a rival gang the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel in the Valle de Santiago.

SOURCE: thesun.co.uk