Culiacan, Mexico, Jun 10 (EFE).- Three bodies were found in Concordia, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, state prosecutors said.
The discovery was made on Monday, just hours after police found 12 bodies inside a pick-up truck abandoned in the city of San Ignacio.
State police, Federal Police officers, army troops and Sinaloa Attorney General's Office crime scene investigators were sent to Concordia to recover the bodies and start the investigation.
The bodies found in San Ignacio had burns and other signs of torture, state police chief Jesus Antonio Aguilar Iñiguez told Efe.
The 12 victims were kidnapped on Sunday afternoon in Vado Hondo, a community in San Ignacio, the police chief said.
The bodies were discovered inside a 1998 twin cab pick-up truck that did not have tags, the police chief said.
Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel that bears the state's name.
The Sinaloa cartel, sometimes referred to by Mexican officials as the Pacific cartel, is a transnational business empire that operates in the United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, intelligence agencies say.
Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, the cartel's leader, was captured on Feb. 22 by marines at the Miramar condominium in Mazatlan.
The 57-year-old Guzman, the world's most notorious and powerful drug lord, was captured without any shots being fired.
