Police in Mexico have captured an alleged former Sinaloa drug cartel lieutenant accused of being involved in the killings of over 350 people found in mass graves in 2011.

Forensics tests in Mexico have confirmed that 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the US border are those of girls and women, authorities said.

Mexican investigators have found a 40-yard (metre) tunnel that inmates chiselled underneath a prison in the northern city of Chihuahua in an effort to escape.

AN entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexico city after a series of attacks killed three officers.

A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the US border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said.

Gunmen have killed five members of a family, including two young children, in the drug cartel-plagued state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico.

A screaming teenager with a gunshot wound has been found dangling from a rope over a busy highway in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

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A spate of bloody attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, hours before the start of the Mexican Open tennis tournament.

Gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire killed seven people at a park that had been built as an anti-violence measure in the besieged Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.

Susana Chavez, a 36-year-old poet and activist who adopted the slogan Not One More Death, was found strangled, mutilated and dumped on a street in the Mexican border city of Juarez, infamous for a series of murders of women – even before drug cartels made it one of the most violent places in the world.

The embattled Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez had its bloodiest year ever with 3,111 people killed in drug violence, an official said.

A mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter’s killer to justice has been shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager.

THE Mexican army have discovered several clandestine graves holding at least 20 bodies near a ranch in the northern border state of Chihuahua.

Mexican authorities said four US citizens were shot dead in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

At least 13 youths aged 14 to 20 have been shot dead at a party in Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said today.

Mexican authorities arrested an alleged trafficker known as “The Tiger” who they say shipped a half-ton of drugs to the US each month and may have been poised to take over for a dead boss in the Sinaloa cartel.

Gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed six men and a woman, authorities said today.

A judge has ordered a US-born suspected drug lord known as “La Barbie” to be held for 40 days pending an investigation into organised crime, Mexican authorities said today.

A CHIHUAHUA’S oddly curved back and legs and closed-up left eye earned the 4-year-old rescue dog top honours at the World’s Ugliest Dog contest at a Northern California fair.

President Felipe Calderon appealed to Mexicans to support the fight against organised crime in a national TV address hours after troops killed 15 suspected gang members.

At least 30 gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation centre in a Mexican border state capital and opened fire, killing 19 men and wounding four people.

THE OFF-SEASON has been tough for some of the world’s leading race walking women – many of whom are already eyeing the final event of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Beijing next September when a $30,000 cheque will await the winner.

MEXICAN police have arrested a suspected top supplier of heroin to the United States, known as “The King of Heroin,” security officials said yesterday.

MEXICO opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the three-year-old battle against drug trafficking – 69 murders in one day.

Gunmen murdered a Mexican state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons at their home.

Rocker Peter Gabriel is urging Mexican President Felipe Calderon to help clarify the killings of hundreds of women in the northern cities of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN flew into Cork Airport yesterday on the last leg of his return flight from South Africa and the Corkman was flying so high after the last 10 days of his 22-day training camp at altitude that he could have done it without a plane.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN will train at altitude in South Africa for his next big assignment which is IAAF Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary, Russia, on May 10, following what he described as “a good, strong performance” in Mexico at the weekend.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN faces his first big test of Olympic year when he lines up for the first leg of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Chihuahua, northern Mexico, on Saturday.

Authorities in the Mexican border city of Cuidad Juarez plan to exhume the remains of thousands of people to get DNA samples that may help identify them and bring order to past police practices.