Over 20 killed around Mexico

Seventeen corpses were found half naked and chained together in western Mexico on 16 September, the result of a mass execution authorities suspected was perpetrated in another state, Mexico's El Informador reported on 17 September. The victims had apparently been shot; police and troops found them "piled up" by the road linking the districts of Tizapán el Alto and Cojumatlán de Régules on the border of the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. An unnamed female resident of Tizapán told El Informador it was now difficult to walk around Tizapán at night "for fear of being shot," and more police were needed. She said "it is known or the authorities know that Tizapán" was being been fought over by two local cartels the Caballeros Templarios and Jalisco Nueva Generación. Also on 16 September, five people were shot to death in different parts of the western resort of Acapulco, El Universal reported on 17 September. On 13 September, four taxi drivers and a woman were shot dead in two incidents in Monterrey, northern Mexico, Spain's EFE reported that day. The drivers were shot at close range by suspected gangsters; the woman was apparently killed by a stray bullet, the agency stated.