A family of seven , including three young children , were found murdered with their throats slit in a ranch outside the Gulf port city of Veracruz , a local official said
yesterday .
The bodies were discovered after neighbours noted an awful smell coming from the home outside the town of Manlio Fabio Altamirano, the Veracruz state attorney general 's office said in a statement .
The state of decomposition suggested they had been murdered at least 72 hours before they
were found .
Three children aged 9,7 and 3 were among the victims , said a government official who requested anonymity .
It was the second time in less than a week that a family was attacked by suspected organised crime gangs .
On 8 August , gunmen killed a family of five in the Pacific coastal resort of Acapulco.
More than 55 ,000 gangland murders and execution - style hits have occurred since President Felipe Calderon took power in December 2006 and declared a national crackdown on drug gangs.
Veracruz has experienced increasing violence over the last year .
There has been a rash of deaths and violence since last week in central Mexico , a battleground between rival gangs for control over lucrative smuggling routes to the United States.
A mayor elected in Mexico 's 1 July vote and his campaign manager were found shot to death in a truck yesterday morning in the state of San Luis Potosi , which lies to the northwest of Veracruz.
Those murders followed the discovery of 14 corpses early Thursday in a van on a major highway outside the state capital, also called San Luis Potosi , and 12 more bodies found in neighbouring Zacatecas state on Friday .
Further to the south , federal troops killed five alleged drug gang members in the western central state of Michoacan on Friday, according to a federal police statement .
The battle took place in Holanda , a stronghold of the cult- like Knights Templar gang and near where federal forces killed the alleged drug lord Nazario Moreno, who is now venerated by local smugglers, in December 2010 .
Following the raid , alleged gang members hijacked and burnt about two dozen vehicles, including buses and a truck carrying new cars , to obstruct roads in the nearby township of Apatzingan.
Four federal police wounded in the battle later died , local media said. Reported RTE.
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