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WORLD SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011 A15 THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Mexican officials uncover 13 bodies, 4 heads in home ass Grisly discovery is latest in drug-cartel battlegrounds By Mark Stevenson Associated Press MEXICO CITY Ten complete bodies, three headless bodies and four severed heads were found when authorities dug up a pit in a house in the Mexican state of Du-rango, authorities said Friday. Authorities are determining whether some of the heads belonged to the bodies. The badly decayed corpses which have not yet been identified were taken to a morgue for autopsies, the Durango state prosecutor's office said in a statement. Durango has been the scene of a bloody turf battle between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas gang. The grisly discovery comes as mass graves with dozens of bodies have been discovered in the northern state of Ta-maulipas, where the Zetas are fighting the Gulf Cartel.

Also Friday, Mexico's army announced that it had captured a man who allegedly confessed to participating in the killing of a well-known poet's son and six other people. The March 28 slaying of Juan Francisco Sicilia, the son of poet Javier Sicilia, sparked demonstrations throughout the country against the violence of Mexico's drug war, which has claimed more than 34,000 lives. The army said suspect Rodrigo Elizalde Mora was captured Thursday in the central city of Cuernavaca, where the killings occurred. He confessed to working for the South Pacific Cartel, led by reputed drug lord Hector Beltran Leyva, and to helping kill Sicilia and a group of friends, according to the army statement. Meanwhile, authorities continued to extract bodies from mass graves in a Mexican border state where 145 corpses have surfaced following reports of passengers being pulled off buses in the area by gunmen and disappearing, state prosecutors said Thursday.

The bodies were found in 26 pits in the township of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, where earlier this month security forces located the graves while investigating reports of attacks on buses now blamed on the Zetas. Tamaulipas state prosecutors said in a statement that 23 of the 145 victims were killed at least a month before passengers began getting kidnapped along a highway leading to the U.S. border. The bodies of 70 of those victims arrived in Mexico City on Thursday for further genetic testing to confirm their identities. A similar procedure was followed after the massacre of 72 migrants in San Fernando in August.

Fourteen of those bodies which have never been identified were taken to a morgue in neighboring Mexico State to make room for the corpses from the latest massacre. Federal Attorney General Marisela Morales said Wednesday that 16 San Fernando police officers were detained for allegedly protecting members of the Zetas and covering up the kidnappings of the bus passengers and others. The Mexican government said it is offering a $1.27 million reward each for information leading to the arrest of Salvador Martinez Escobedo, the alleged leader of the Zetas in San Fernando, and Omar Estrada Luna, a cell leader. The government is also offering $846,000 for Roman Palomo Rincones and $423,000 for Sarai Diaz Arroyo, who both allegedly participated in the latest massacre, Morales said. m' Chile's Allende will be exhumed "Judge Mario Carranza (who is in charge of proceedings) told us this is the right thing," Allende's daughter, Chilean Sen.

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