JUAREZ, Mexico, May 17 (UPI) -- Police worked to identify the decapitated bodies of two men found in the city of Juarez, Mexico, the Juarez state attorney general's office said.
Spokesman Arturo Sandoval said the bodies, found Sunday, had two notes from a drug cartel attached, CNN reported Monday.
"This phenomenon (of violence) here ... we've been seeing it, and living it in Juarez for the last two years," Sandoval said.
The killings were the latest in a nearly 4-year-old upsurge of drug-related violence in Juarez and surrounding Chihuahua state.
The body of another man was found Sunday in front of a church in the Valley of Juarez, Sandoval said. On Friday in the Valley of Juarez, six men died after they were shot by assailants and their van crashed.
A Mexican government report indicated Chihuahua is the state hardest-hit by drug violence, with more than 6,757 people killed since the drug war started near the end of 2006, CNN said.
