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Mutilations in Mexico

Summary

15 May 2012

Almost 50 dead bodies have been found dumped in black plastic bags on a highway outside the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. So far, law enforcement officials have not named a group as responsible for the crime, which is one of the worst of its kind in the country's violent drug war.

Reporter:

Will Grant

Report

In what was one of the most violent incidents in Mexico for many months, dozens of dismembered and decapitated bodies were dumped in plastic bags on one of the main roads out of the city of Monterrey. 

The victims had been brutally¹ murdered and the authorities later said the killers² had cut the hands off the bodies, making identifying the remains³ even harder. The state authorities in Nuevo Leon said the victims had been murdered as long as two days ago, based on the state of decomposition⁴ of some of the bodies. 

An investigation⁵ is underway, but the murders have all the hallmarks of being carried out by one of the country's powerful drug gangs. Monterrey is experiencing some of the worst violence in Mexico's spiralling drug conflict, and large criminal organisations such as Los Zetas are very prominent in the northern region of the country. 

Many Mexicans are angry that, despite six years of the government's military offensive against the drug gangs, the cartels are still able to carry out massacres⁶ on this kind of a scale. With the presidential election just weeks away, the incident only goes to underline the huge scale of the security task facing the next administration.

1 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

2 killers   

凶手( killer的名词复数 )； 消灭…者； 致命物； 极难的事

参考例句：

• He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
• They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 decomposition   

n. 分解, 腐烂, 崩溃

参考例句：

• It is said that the magnetite was formed by a chemical process called thermal decomposition. 据说这枚陨星是在热分解的化学过程中形成的。
• The dehydration process leads to fairly extensive decomposition of the product. 脱水过程会导致产物相当程度的分解。

5 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

6 massacres   

大屠杀( massacre的名词复数 )； 惨败

参考例句：

• The time is past for guns and killings and massacres. 动不动就用枪、动不动就杀、大规模屠杀的时代已经过去了。 来自教父部分
• Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollection. 近来那些不可胜数的屠杀，在他们的头脑中记忆犹新。