Blog del Narco: 5 Knights of Templar Drug Cartel Members Found Tortured and Slain

Five people were executed and messages were left by local drug cartels in the vicinity of highway Century 21, which connects Michoacan and Guerrero, near the community of Zorcúa, km 295.5, in the municipality of La Union.

On one side of the bodies were found nine narcomessages with the following: “This is going to happen to the members of Knights Templar” say the official reports.

The murders were reported around 5:00 pm after an anonymous call.  The five bodies of men between 20 and 25 years of age were under a bridge. They showed signs of torture, as well as bullet wounds in the head, blows to the body and eyes covered with masking tape.

They were also found various posts around the bodies, some of them driven into the chest of the deceased with stab weapons.

The bodies were taken to a funeral home in La Union, which was designated as the Medical Examiner. The five bodies remain as unknown.

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