El Paso Times
Mexico morgues crowded with mounting drug-war dead
By JULIE WATSON / Associated Press
Posted: 03/06/2009 08:25:50 AM MST
Bodies awaiting autopsies crowd a walk-in refrigerator at the morgue in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Feb. 18, 2009. Bodies stacked in the morgues of Mexico's border cities tell the story of an escalating drug war. Drug violence claimed 6,290 people last year, double the previous year, and more than 1,000 in the first eight weeks of 2009.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Death froze his exhausted face.
The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man's head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street. Read more »
