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(NewsNation) — According to prosecutors successful Reynosa, Mexico, authorities person arrested 9 suspects successful transportation with the disappearance and killing of the 5 members of the euphony group, Grupo Fugitivo.
Those 9 suspects are believed to beryllium portion of a faction called the Gulf Cartel.
Grupo Fugitivo played "narcocorrido" music, a sub-genre that sometimes pays homage to cause cartel leaders, depicting them arsenic Robin Hood-like figures. However, it's unclear if Grupo Fugitivo played these types of songs.
Authorities accidental it's inactive unclear wherefore the Gulf Cartel would person targeted the band.
Authorities accidental the set members were kidnapped past play portion traveling to a venue wherever they'd been hired to play.
According to household members, earlier their disappearance, the set was hired to enactment connected a performance but past arrived to find a vacant lot.
Authorities made the gruesome find of the 5 bodies successful Reynosa, adjacent the Texas-Mexico border, an country that has faced escalating unit successful caller years arsenic antithetic cartels strive to summation power of cause trafficking and quality smuggling there.
While authorities didn't corroborate what information the bodies were recovered in, they besides did not contradict section media reports that they had been burned.
Additionally, immoderate relatives of the set members accidental that astatine immoderate point, they had received ransom demands for them.
"After their kidnapping, they were taken to a spot adjacent the Aquiles Serdan neighborhood, wherever the antecedently mentioned information and justness unit conducted an operation," Irving Barrios Murica, Tamapaulis State Prosecutor, said successful a media conference.
"The cognition is inactive ongoing, forensic services unit are moving astatine the location. At the moment, determination are elements that suggest this is the spot wherever they were unluckily killed," helium added.
While the details are being pieced together, unit against euphony groups is communal successful Mexico.. Sometimes, erstwhile a radical praises a rival cartel, it tin enactment the musicians successful the mediate of turf battles betwixt the transgression groups.
In April, the U.S. State Department revoked the visas of the set Los Alegres Del Barranco for glorifying the caput of the CJNG cartel ‘El Mencho’ during a concert.
