Shootout at the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico .Photo:Noroeste

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Shootout at the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico .Photo:Noroeste by Pat Garcia

The Associated Press is reporting that gunmen killed ten people in Culiacan, capital of Mexico's northern state, Sinaloa.

Prosecutors say gunmen killed nine people at an auto repair shop in the gang-plagued city of Culiacan, while a police investigator was found shot to death near the city's police headquarters.

Culiacan is the capital of northern Sinaloa state - home to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel and site of an ongoing wave of drug-related violence. Six bullet-ridden bodies were found inside the auto body shop, and three more bodies were found on the street just outside the business.

The state prosecutor's office said in a statement that none of the nine bodies have been identified and no arrests have been made.

A police investigator was found shot to death in his truck near Culiacan's police headquarters.

It was unclear if the same gunmen were involved in his death.

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