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The bodies of 11 men and one woman, some with their tongues cut out, have been found dumped in an empty lot next to an elementary school in Tijuana city in the northwest of the country.
Most of the victims had been bound and tortured. Some were only partially clothed, Prisna Perez, state police spokeswoman in Tijuana, said. Romel Moreno, the state attorney general of Baja California, said that seven of the victims had their tongues cut out. He said a plastic bag containing five human tongues was also found near the bodies. "We're in a war," Moreno told a news conference late on Monday. "We're in a constant battle." Moreno said at least three of the victims were teenagers. He said the federal attorney general's office has taken over the investigation. Minutes after the grisly discovery, four other bodies were found in another empty lot in Tijuana, and two other bodies were discovered late on Sunday in a lot next to a factory. Investigators believe 16 of the victims were killed by warring drug gangs. The other two were victims of street crime, an official said. Tijuana is among the cities hardest hit by violence as Mexico's drug cartels battle for lucrative smuggling routes past the border to supply illegal drug users in the United States.
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