May 13, 2012

May 13 Photo Brief: Headless bodies found in Mexico, Sukhoi Superjet air crash, Tunnel of Love

Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Buddha, drug cartel, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Lord's Resistance Army, Maha Mariamman, Mexico, monks, Pakistan, Russia, Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, Sukhoi Superjet, Thailand, Ukraine, Yemen

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Forty-nine mutilated bodies found along the highway near the northern city of Monterrey in Mexico, a search and rescue mission for casualties from the Sukhoi Superjet air crash, a “Tunnel of Love” in the Ukraine and more in today’s daily brief.

: Mexican Federal personnel police block the road between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa, Mexico, on May 13, 2012. At least 49 mutilated bodies were found along the highway near the city of Monterrey, the third most populated in the country, the State Prosecutor’s Office reported. (Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images)

: Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Caesar Achellam is seen in Owiny Kibul in this September 20, 2006 file photo. Uganda People’s Defence Forces said Achellam, a major general in LRA leader Joseph Kony’s outfit of about 200 fighters, had been captured in an ambush on May 12, 2012. (James Akena/Reuters)

: A group prepares for a search and rescue mission for possible casualties from the Sukhoi Superjet air crash in the early morning on top of Mount Salak May 13, 2012. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

: Afghan couples are pictured during a mass wedding in Herat province on May 12, 2012. Twenty-three Afghan couples married during the ceremony in Herat. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

: A girl walks through what is known locally as the “Tunnel of Love,” located on a disused railway track in the small town of Kleven. May 13, 2012. (Gleb Granich/Reuters)

: Participants in a rocket competition cheer after their rocket was successfully launched during the rocket festival known as “Bun Bangfai” in Yasothon May 13, 2012. The festival marks the start of the rainy season when farmers are about to plant rice. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)

: A demonstrator, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, puts up a banner reading “Cut and Paste” during a gathering marking the one year anniversary of Spain’s Indignados (Indignant) movement in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol May 13, 2012. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)

: Amateur skateboarders rest in front of a monument of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the former Soviet Union in Krasnoyarsk May 13, 2012. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: A worker carrying a boy stands behind bananas at a wholesale banana market on the banks of the Yangon River May 13, 2012.The bananas were harvested from Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

: A policeman takes a picture of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft during transportation to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome May 13, 2012. The International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin is due to travel on the spacecraft on May 15. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

: A boy jumps into a canal to cool off during a hot day in Lahore May 13, 2012. Temperatures reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit as weather remained hot and dry in other parts of the country, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said on their website. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)

: A Christian fundamentalist dressed as Joan of Arc is seen during a gathering to celebrate the 600th anniversary of her birth in Paris May 13, 2012. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

: An Egyptian expatriate living in Yemen casts her ballot for the presidential election at the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa on May 13, 2012. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

: Indian Muslims offer prayers inside the shrine of Saint Shaikh Shah Alam at the Shah Alam Roza in Ahmedabad on May 13, 2012. The 553rd Urs (death anniversary celebrations) of the Muslim saint are currently being held at the shrine, which is maintained by the Archeological Survey of India. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

: Indian Hindu devotees get their cheeks pierced with steel rods during a procession to honor the Hindu goddess Maha Mariamman in Amritsar on May 13, 2012. Devotees believe that the goddess protects whoever worships her. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)

: Detained activists of the Hindu hard line group Bajrang Dal, shout anti-government slogans inside a police vehicle at Jhajjar Kotli May 13, 2012. Ahead of the annual Amarnath yatra pilgrimage, 100 activists were detained while protesting the reduced the number of days of the Yatra to 39 in 2012 from 60 days in 2009. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

: Afghan policemen perform a drill during a graduation ceremony at the Adraskan police training centre in Herat province on May 13, 2012. Some 900 officers completed their eight-week training course at the police training centre in the western province of Herat. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

: Lebanese Sunni Muslim gunmen are seen during fighting in the Bab al-Tebbaneh neighborhood of Tripoli after clashes broke out between factions supporting and opposed to the revolt in Syria May 13, 2012. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

: Pope Benedict XVI (C) prays at the tomb of late Pope Gregorio X at Arezzo’s cathedral during a one day pastoral visit on May 13, 2012. (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)

: A South Korean boy gets his head shaved by a Buddhist monk during a “Children Becoming Buddhist monks” ceremony at Jogye temple in Seoul on May 13, 2012. Nine children will stay at the temple to learn about Buddhism for 20 days ahead of celebrations for Buddha’s birthday on May 28 this year. (Jung Yeon-Jejung/AFP/Getty Images)

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Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico
By: Luis Ochoa

CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug gang killers dumped the headless bodies of 49 people on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years.

The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said.

“What’s complicating the identification of all the people was that they were all headless,” said Jorge Domene, the Nuevo Leon government’s spokesman for public security, who said the other body parts were missing.

Domene said the brutal Zetas drug gang claimed responsibility for the murders in a message found at the scene.