Another three men were found a day earlier hanged in the nearby town of Rodesia, "with their hands tied and signs of torture," Mr Leyva told AFP.
This method of murder - hanging victims from highway bridges for motorists to see - has been one of the fear tactics used by Mexico's feuding drug cartels in recent months, though until now, it had mostly been seen in the north.
In the neighboring state of Michoacan, soldiers patrolling on a rural road on Monday discovered a mass grave containing the remains of six to nine people, a military official who requested anonymity said.
The bodies were found in an abandoned camp that criminals had apparently used to torture, kill and incinerate their rivals.
The victims appear to have been shopkeepers who were extorted and then murdered, the military official said.
Michoacan is home to the La Familia and Knights Templar drug cartels.
In the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, which borders Texas, Mexican soldiers killed 12 heavily armed civilians in separate shootouts on Monday, according to a statement from the state attorney general's office and the public security agency.
More than 50,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence across Mexico since 2006, when the military was ordered to take the lead in a crackdown against the country's powerful drug cartels.
Source: The Telegraph
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