Mexican drug lord's body stolen from funeral home
October 10, 2012  01:06
A major coup for the Mexican authorities turned to embarrassment, when it emerged that the body of the slain leader of the Zetas drug cartel had been stolen from a funeral parlor.

Heriberto Lazcano's corpse and that of another man were taken to a funeral home in the town of Sabinas in the northern state of Coahuila shortly after they were killed in a shootout on Sunday with naval special forces.

Coahuila state prosecutor Homero Ramos told a press conference in Sabinas that a gang of heavily armed men wearing face masks later entered the parlor and subdued the staff. 

"They took the bodies, stuck them in a hearse, and made the owner drive it off," Ramos said.

The Mexican navy, which conducted the operation against the Zetas leader, said fingerprints had been used to identify the body as Lazcano's before it was stolen.
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