Police found nine bodies over the weekend next to the bull ring in Durango city, the capital of the like-named northern Mexican state, the Public Safety Secretariat said in a posting on Twitter.
The bodies of the nine men were found Sunday morning in a street by the bull ring in the city’s San Ignacio district, the secretariat said.
Investigators are trying to determine who killed the men, the secretariat said, without providing details about the cause of death.
The men were killed by an organized crime group, Mexican media reported.
A total of 218 bodies have been found in mass graves in Durango city since early April.
Investigators suspect that the killings may have been carried out by the Sinaloa, Los Zetas and Beltran Leyva drug cartels, Mexican media reported.
The mass graves in Durango have now yielded more bodies than those in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, where 183 bodies were found in the city of San Fernando.
The majority of the bodies discovered in Durango city were in the Las Fuentes neighborhood.
The Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s oldest and largest drug trafficking organization, has been trying to gain control of Durango, the press reported.
Durango, one of the states most affected by drug-related violence, is reported to be the hiding place of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman.
Nearly 40,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.
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