Mexico Zetas Drug Cartel: Facts And Figures

Everything You Need To Know About Mexico's Notorious Zetas
Confiscated money, grenades, and guns are displayed during the media presentation of the alleged leader of a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as "El Taliban," at the Mexican Navy's Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City,Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Velazquez Caballero allegedly has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top Zetas' leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Confiscated money, grenades, and guns are displayed during the media presentation of the alleged leader of a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as "El Taliban," at the Mexican Navy's Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City,Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Velazquez Caballero allegedly has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top Zetas' leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Mexico says it has killed the leader of the brutal Zetas drug gang, the most powerful kingpin to fall in a six-year battle against cartels, but in a surreal twist his body was then snatched from a funeral home by armed men.

Mexico's Navy said fingerprint tests confirmed that Heriberto Lazcano was killed in a firefight in the northern state of Coahuila on Sunday afternoon.

Find out everything you need to know about the Zetas in the slideshow below. (Captions by Reuters)

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