GUADALAJARA, Mexico, March 11 (UPI) -- Five men's heads were found in ice chests at the side of a road leading to Guadalajara in central Mexico, authorities said.
Authorities said the gruesome find could be an signal of stepped-up fighting among drug cartels for domination in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, near Sinaloa, where the Sinaloa cartel is located, CNN reported Wednesday.
Discovered Tuesday beneath a tree along the road, each head was in a separate ice chest with eyes taped shut, police said. The tops of the ice chests had messages such as, "Like these, I am going to finish everyone."
Police in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan del Rio were told of the find, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The eyes of the victims were taped shut and the heads had been severed a few hours before they were found, the statement said. The men were thought to be between the ages of 30 and 45.
