TIJUANA, Mexico — The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said.
The heads were discovered in plastic bags near the bodies in a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, across from San Diego, Baja California state police said in a statement. Three police identification cards were also found at the site.
The statement gave no motive for the killings, but they came as Mexico's drug cartels wage a bloody fight for smuggling routes and against government forces, dumping beheaded bodies onto streets, carrying out massacres and even tossing grenades into a crowd of Independence Day revelers _ an attack that killed eight people in September.
More than 4,000 people have died so far this year in drug-related violence in Mexico.
Across Tijuana on Sunday, attacks by gunmen killed five people in addition to the nine beheaded bodies.
State police said nine more people were killed in attacks on Saturday. In one, gunmen killed a 4-year-old child in an attack on a grocery store.
Baja California has suffered a rising wave of homicides, which officials blame on a struggle between rival cells of the Arellano-Felix drug cartel.
The Arellano Felix cartel emerged in the 1980s as a drug trafficking powerhouse across the U.S. border from San Diego, but has been weakened in recent years as leaders were killed or captured.
Last month, police arrested Eduardo Arellano Felix, the alleged leader of the cartel. Authorities say his nephew, Luis Fernando Sanchez Arellano, has taken over the cartel's operations and is fighting contenders.
President Felipe Calderon on Sunday vowed his government would never negotiate with drug lords no matter how much the violence escalates.
Since taking office on Dec. 1, 2006, Calderon has sent more than 20,000 soldiers to battle drug trafficking across Mexico, helping to seize of 70 tons of cocaine and 3,700 tons of marijuana, he said.
"We know that the results are far from what society demands, but that's why we'll keep fighting these criminals across the country," Calderon told a meeting on Sunday marking his first two years in office.
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墨西哥边境一城市发现九具无头尸体
墨西哥蒂华纳-周日,九具无头尸在该市一处荒地被发现.当地政府透露,两个对立的贩毒集团在周末发生了多次暴力冲突，其中一次至少23人死亡。
据圣地亚哥和下加利福尼亚州警方的共同声明,九名死者的头颅是装在废弃的塑料袋里被扔到蒂华纳一个偏僻的郊区.而此地距藏尸处很近.在发现头颅的地方还找到了三个警官证件.
这份声明并未让案情有所进展，却见证了墨西哥贩毒集团之间为争夺毒品走私路线和对抗警方造成的流血冲突，他们把身首异处的尸体抛在大街上，开始疯狂的大屠杀。9月，这群暴力分子在独立纪念日当天，曾向人群投掷手榴弹导致八人死亡。
到目前为止，墨西哥今年发生的涉及毒品的暴力事件已导致超过4000人死亡。
周日，在蒂华纳发现九具无头尸，一群持枪分子射杀了5名群众.
警方认为在周六的武力袭击中有超过九人死亡。其中就有一个四岁的孩子，他在便利店附近被一持枪分子杀害。
下加利福尼亚州杀人案激增，政府认为这与Arellano-Fellx贩毒集团内部人马的火拼有关.
19世纪80年代,Arellano Felix贩毒集团作为圣地亚哥州至美墨两国交界一线的贩毒集团而声名鹊起，但因为近年主要头目被杀或被捕势力日渐衰弱。
上个月，警方逮捕了Eduardo Arellano Felix,即该贩毒集团所谓的首领。当局称Eduardo的侄子Luis Fernando Sanchez Arellano已接管该犯罪集团，并正同集团内其他势力进行斗争。
周日，费利佩·卡尔德隆总统发表宣言称政府决不会和贩毒分子妥协，无论这次暴力冲突将升级到何种程度。
他还提到，自2006年11月1日上任以来，他已派遣超过2万名士兵在全国范围内打击毒品交易，共缴获70吨可卡因和3700吨大麻。
周日，卡尔德隆在标志自己执政两周年的会议上坦言，“我们知道打击毒品活动的收效不尽人意，但这也是我们继续坚持在全国范围打击毒品活动的原因。”