MEXICAN POLICE FIND THREE MORE VICTIMS OF DRUG WAR

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Police Thursday found three more victims
of a grisly drug war in this violent northern border city, and Motorola
Inc. said one of four men found in similar circumstances last weekend
worked for it.

The bodies discovered Thursday had been stuffed into the trunk of a car,
their mouths sealed with duct tape.

Police said that the latest victims, like the first four men, had been
strangled with a wire cable and that the killings bore the hallmarks of the
region's powerful cocaine cartels.

The men found Thursday had been dead for about 24 hours and bore visible
signs of torture, police said. They were found in the trunk of a Ford
Thunderbird reported stolen in El Paso, Texas, just across the Rio Grande
from Ciudad Juarez.

Police said they did not know if the latest set of killings was
specifically linked to the earlier one. The four men found last week were
communications experts who had been hired to install anti-eavesdropping
devices for the state police.

In a statement issued Thursday, Motorola's Mexico unit said one of its
employees based in Mexico City, Hector Francisco Gonzalez Gomez, had been
among the victims. The parent company is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

``Motorola cannot speculate about the motives of this tragedy and trusts
the official investigations will resolve the case and punish the guilty,''
the statement said.

So far this year, 34 people have been killed in drug-related murders in
Juarez, police said.

In the past year, Juarez has been rocked by a war between rival gangs
fighting for control of one of the most lucrative drug-running corridors in
the world.

Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited.

Checked-by: Richard Lake