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BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud | BBC News


WARNING: Contains graphic imagery of victims of stabbings and shootings, as well images of those killed in street violence.

Mexico’s president has praised the special forces for "bringing down" the country’s most wanted man, drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.

Oseguera, better known as "El Mencho", died in custody on Sunday, shortly after being captured amid a bloody firefight in Jalisco.

But in another Mexican cartel hotspot – Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state – the vacuum left by the removal of a powerful cartel leader can trigger a surge in violence as warring factions battle for control, as the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville found out.

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