The dismembered bodies of five men were found on a road in central Mexico, in an area controlled by the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel. Police were alerted to the scene near the town of Ojuelos in Jalisco state on Sunday morning after drivers reported seeing human remains in plastic bags. BBC Informed.
“A report was received indicating that, on the asphalt strip of the road (…) there were several bags that looked like human shadows,” State Prosecutor’s Office Said. Forensic teams are working to identify the victims, officials said.
The gruesome nature of the murders and public disposal of the bodies strongly suggest cartel involvement. National Guard soldiers also arrived at the scene, where they found the remains wrapped in a black plastic bag, according to a statement from the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office.
The ages of the victims have not yet been determined and the investigation is ongoing, the statement said.
In Jalisco, official figures show that 1,415 people were murdered between January and September this year.
More than 30,000 people are killed each year in Mexico, one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Last week, the mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence was assassinated just days after taking office.
Alejandro Arcos was murdered in Chilpancingo, a city of about 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office last week, has ruled out a return to the previous administration’s war on drugs.
He said his security strategy would focus on gathering intelligence on the cartels and addressing the root causes of violence – a policy known as “hug not shoot”, introduced by his predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Went.
However, the opposition is pushing for a tougher stance against the cartel.
Since the government began deploying the Mexican military against drug cartels in 2006, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and thousands more have gone missing.
