The Nuevo León mass graves was the
mass murder
Mass murder is the violent crime of murder, killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more ...
of over 70 people in the
Nuevo León
Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, is a Administrative divisions of Mexico, state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, San Luis ...
,
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
on 25 June 2010 in several mass graves. The municipality of
Juárez, Nuevo León counts with 51 of the 70 bodies found; most of the bodies were shot dead, while others were burned and mutilated.
See also
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List of massacres in Mexico
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Mexican Drug War
The Mexican drug war is an List of ongoing armed conflicts, ongoing Asymmetric warfare, asymmetric armed conflict between the Federal government of Mexico, Mexican government and various Drug cartel#Mexico, drug trafficking syndicates. When the ...
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2011 San Fernando massacre
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2011 Durango Massacres
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Coahuila mass graves
References
Massacres of the Mexican drug war
Mass graves in Mexico
Massacres in 2010
June 2010 in Mexico
2010 murders in Mexico
June 2010 crimes in North America
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