{"id":59066,"date":"2020-01-19T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59066"},"modified":"2020-01-19T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T04:43:20","slug":"ten-charred-bodies-found-in-vehicle-in-violence-plagued-mexican-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59066","title":{"rendered":"Ten charred bodies found in vehicle in violence-plagued Mexican state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-503282260-e1527419400682-900x506.jpg\" alt=\"Ten Charred Bodies Found in Vehicle in Violence-Plagued Mexican State\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Federal Police patrol around a hospital in Guadalajara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;&nbsp;Mexican prosecutors are investigating the discovery of a burned-out vehicle containing the charred bodies of at least 10 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police made the grisly discovery on a country road in the municipality of Chilapa de Alvarez after locals saw the vehicle on fire and alerted authorities, state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said in a statement published on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forensic and other investigators were at the scene, a&nbsp;state prosecutor said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear what caused the fire. According to media reports, the victims were men and youths from a musical group who were attacked by suspected gunmen from a local drug cartel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attorney general&#8217;s office of Guerrero did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Mexico&#8217;s poorest states, Guerrero has long been one of the most violent regions of the country, which was on track to register a record number of homicides last year. Chilapa de Alvarez is a notoriously violent area of Guerrero.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug gangs violently defend trafficking routes in the state along the Pacific coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Oct, 14 suspected criminals and a soldier were killed in Guerrero after a group of armed civilians attacked security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office more than a year ago promising to attack violent crime at its roots by fighting poverty and inequality with social programs, rather than with the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the country still saw nearly 29,000 murders last year, and has registered around 275,000 killings since the government launched a military offensive against drug cartels in 2006. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Police patrol around a hospital in Guadalajara MEXICO CITY, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;&nbsp;Mexican prosecutors are investigating the discovery of a burned-out vehicle containing the charred bodies of at least 10 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero, authorities said. Police made the grisly discovery on a country road in the municipality of Chilapa de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}