MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Flossie has strengthened into a powerful Category 3 hurricane off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. The hurricane center said Flossie would begin weakening later Wednesday.

Barry, the second named storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, became a tropical depression by Sunday night, when it made landfall shortly before 11 p.m. ET. It made landfall over Mexico's east coast about 15 miles south-southeast of Tampico, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

A sixth named storm has formed just six weeks into the eastern Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storm Flossie materialized over the weekend about 400 miles west of Nicaragua, and could skim along Mexico’s west coast before bringing wet weather to the Baja Peninsula late in the week.

Four decapitated bodies have been found hanging from a bridge in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, part of a surge of violence that claimed the lives of 20 people in less than a day

Prosecutors in northern Mexico’s Sinaloa state are investigating the discovery of 20 male bodies with gunshot wounds – including five that were decapitated – on a bridge over a federal highway.