Four men found decapitated as Mexico drug war rages

The severed heads of four men were found dumped on a Mexican street with a message accusing a drug gang kingpin of treachery, police said. Neighbours in the northern city of Culiacan found the men's bodies wrapped in plastic sheets and a blanket, with their heads stuffed into white plastic bags. An obscenity-laden note scrawled onto a piece of cardboard invited Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman - the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel - "to see what his stupid acts had caused". Guzman, who is considered Mexico's most wanted man, is battling a rival gang led by his one-time ally Arturo Beltran Leyva, whose hitmen reportedly killed one of Guzman's sons in May. In a separate incident in the same city, police said they killed four suspected drug gang members in a shootout. More than 1,600 people have died so far this year in drug... [read full story]