The Nuevo León mass graves was the
mass murder
Mass murder is the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. The United States Congress defines mass killings as the killings of three or more pe ...
of over 70 people in the
Nuevo León
Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...
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Mexico on 25 June 2010 in several mass graves. The municipality of
Juárez, Nuevo León
Ciudad Benito Juárez, or simply Juárez, is the name of a city located in the eastern part of the Monterrey metropolitan area in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. Ciudad Benito Juárez had a 2 ...
counts with 51 of the 70 bodies found; most of the bodies were shot dead, while others were burned and mutilated.
See also
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List of massacres in Mexico
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Mexican Drug War
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2011 San Fernando massacre
The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico in March 2011. Authorities in ...
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2011 Durango Massacres
The 2011 Durango massacres were a series of mass murders that occurred in 2011. According to '' El Universal'' and ''Yahoo! News'', at least 340 bodies have been found in mass graves around the city of Durango as of February 2012; These mass grav ...
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Coahuila mass graves
References
Massacres in Mexico
Organized crime events in Mexico
Mass murder in 2010
Battles of the Mexican drug war
2010 in Mexico
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