Mexican Police Alleged Involved in Tamaulipas Murders

Mexico City, Apr 14. -New evidence emerged regarding the mass graves found in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas after the arrest of 16 police allegedly involved in the horrifying story that shaken Mexico for the last week.

The Office of the General Prosecutor reported the arrests in the murders of at least 125 people in the town of San Fernando.

The policemen provided protection to the Los Zetas gang, which is accused killing the victims and burying them in mass graves. In addition to the sites in San Fernando, graves were found in Los Mochis, in nearby Sinaloa state, two days ago.

The General Prosecutor announced a reward for the equivalent of four million USD for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators.

Names released as the alleged ringleaders of that massacre were Salvador Alfonso Martnez Escobedo, Omar Martinez Estrada, Roman Ricardo Palomo Rincones, and Sarahi Fabiola Diaz Arroyo,

Meanwhile, it was reported from Matamoros that dozens of bodies found in the mass graves were moved to overwhelmed forensic services for identification.

After three days of continuous discoveries of mass graves at different sites in Tamaulipas, one with 10 bodies, it was reported that four gang members were shot dead in clashes with soldiers, who maintain San Fernando under military control.

According to news reports in Ciudad Victoria, capital of Tamaulipas, many of the dead found in the mass graves may have been passengers from two buses owned by a local company near the U.S. border that disappeared several weeks ago.

According to the reports, drug cartels in complicity with police and immigration agents, have made a profitable business out of the kidnapping of migrants, executing them when they cannot pay to cross the border or refuse to cooperate with drug gangs. (Prensa Latina)