17 bodies found along Mexican road

TIZAPAN EL ALTO, Mexico, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Seventeen mutilated bodies were found along a road in west-central Mexico's Jalisco state, authorities said Sunday.

No one had claimed responsibility for the slayings, the Organizacion Editorial Mexicana reported.

Witnesses said they saw men in two black trucks stop and unload boxes containing the bodies along the highway to Morelia. Police determined they were the bodies of 17 young men who had been shot to death and dismembered, the news service said.

The newspaper El Universal reported the remains would be sent to the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences for identification.