Mexico, 15 dead in internal war of Sinaloa cartel

(ANSA) – CULIACAN, SEPTEMBER 13 – A total of 14 open investigation files and 15 deaths. This is the latest toll of the violent war that began on Monday between the Chapitos and the Mayos, the two factions into which the Sinaloa cartel has split and headed, respectively, by “Chapo” Guzmán and “Mayo” Zambada, both detained in the United States. The Attorney General, Claudia Zulema Sánchez, confirmed this to local media. “From Monday to today, 15 murders have been registered,” she declared. Last September 9, the governor of Sinaloa, Rocha Moya, was forced to suspend classes in all schools and universities in the capital Culiacán and had requested military reinforcements from Mexico City to guarantee the safety of citizens. Today two bodies were recovered, one of them decapitated and with signs of torture on various parts of the body, near Park 87, a well-known green area in Culiacán equipped with attractions including slides, swimming pools and a ‘peace garden’. (ANSA).