| 1 | MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police in southern Mexico say they have found seven bodies dumped on a roadside in the state of Puebla, near the border with the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. |
| 2 | Puebla state police said late Thursday the victims were not killed at the spot where they were dumped. |
| 3 | Puebla authorities said they were cooperating with Veracruz officials in the investigation of the deaths. |
| 4 | They said there had been no reports of the disappearance of that number of people in Puebla, strongly implying the victims were killed in another state. |
| 5 | Veracruz has been riven by turf battles between drug gangs. |
| 6 | Earlier Thursday, six people were shot to death at a bar in the Veracruz city of Orizaba. |
| 7 | The victims included one journalist. |