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Six members of the same family were found dead in a pit in Mexico's most violent state of Chihuahua three months after they were kidnapped, prosecutors said on Sunday.
On Friday, people exploring the area around an abandoned mine found the body of a boy under age 17, and the bodies of five men aged 19 to 34, the Chihuahua attorney general's office said in a statement.
The bodies were found floating in the water of a crater meters from the mine in the mountain town of Urique, about 600km south of Mexico's crime capital Ciudad Juarez.
Prosecutors told local media some of the victims were brothers and cousins. Armed men captured the group three months ago.
Authorities attribute the wave of violence in Chihuahua, especially in Ciudad Juarez, to a dispute between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels for control of lucrative drug routes into the United States.
In Ciudad Juarez alone, a city of 1.2 million people across the border from El Paso, Texas, some 3,100 people were killed this year.
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