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MEXICO CITY - MEXICAN police found five male heads in ice coolers near a road in the western state of Jalisco early on Tuesday, a spokesman from the state prosecutor's office said.
Brutal violence is spiraling across Mexico, with more than 1,000 killed this year alone in suspected drug attacks amid a government crackdown on warring cartels.
Of more than 5,300 killed in drug violence last year, 160 bodies were decapitated, according to Mexican media.
Police found the latest five heads in five separate ice coolers near a road in Jalisco, an area until now less affected by drug-related violence, compared to northern border areas along key trafficking routes into the United States.
'They are five unidentified male heads,' a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said, declining to be named.
Officials are planning to hold a news conference on grim discovery, he added.
The government of President Felipe Calderon has deployed some 40,000 troops across the country to stem the violence, including reinforcements last month to the volatile northern border city of Ciudad Juarez.
- AFP
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