Mexican authorities discovered seven lifeless bodies on Wednesday, showing clear signs of torture, in the rural area of Culiacán, Sinaloa, just one day after the same number of bodies was found in several municipalities in the western state of Mexico.

Six of these seven victims were found along the side of the highway that connects Culiacán to Mazatlán, near Laguna de Canachi, according to local media reports, which also noted that messages addressed to a criminal group were found near the bodies.

This brings the total number of violent deaths in the region to seven within just 24 hours. On Tuesday, authorities reported more victims found in the municipalities of Culiacán, Elota, and Mazatlán.

Among the victims identified was a local cattle rancher named Ramón Velázquez Ontiveros, as well as a police officer from Mazatlán, who was killed by a motorcyclist outside his home in San Marcos.

The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah claimed on Wednesday that it launched an attack with explosive drones against the Israeli army’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The Iran-backed organization reported in a statement that it had carried out “an aerial attack with a squadron of explosive drones” targeting the site that houses Israel’s main defense institutions.

Hezbollah later stated that it also fired a barrage of rockets at the Glilot military intelligence base in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.

The Israeli military indicated that “sirens sounded in several areas of northern and central Israel following the launch of projectiles from Lebanon.”

It later clarified that “five projectiles were identified over the territory, and some were intercepted.”

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Santiago Uribe, the brother of former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, was acquitted in the first instance of charges of homicide and links to paramilitary groups, according to a statement released on Wednesday by one of the parties involved in the case.

The younger brother of the former president (2002-2010) had been under investigation since 2013 for alleged ties to “Los Doce Apóstoles,” a far-right militia group that operated in the 1990s and was blamed for numerous deaths in the northwest of the country.

His acquittal on charges of homicide and conspiracy to commit crimes “is hard to accept for the victims, especially after years of testimonies and evidence,” reacted lawyer Sergio Mesa, representing several complainants, in statements to the Cuestión Pública portal after the ruling was announced by a court in Medellín (northwest).

In addition to acquitting Santiago Uribe, Judge Jaime Herrera decided to open proceedings for “false testimony” against seven individuals who had testified against the rancher, according to separate decisions released by local media.

Álvaro Uribe, who is also facing legal proceedings for alleged ties to paramilitary death squads that terrorized the country in the 1990s, had dismissed the accusations against his younger brother as part of a “political persecution” orchestrated by his opponents.

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