The bodies of five decapitated men were found on a highway in Mexico on Sunday.
The remains were abandoned along a stretch of a road in the municipality of Ojuelos that connects the nearby town of San Juan de Los Lagos and San Luis Potosí.
The Jalisco state prosecutor said the National Guard received a call at 7:05 a.m. from a person indicating that there were several bags that appeared to contain human bodies and severed heads.
Agents from the Prosecutor’s Office went to the scene, where they were able to confirm the macabre findings.
Authorities are investigating the site where five decapitated bodies were found on Sunday in the town of Ojuelos, in western Mexico.
A grim image leaked on social media showed the men with their hands tied and their jeans pulled down to their ankles.
Other photographs showed the bruised faces of several victims, indicating that they were beaten and tortured before being killed.
The state prosecutor’s office said it was unable to determine the identities of the five victims.
Intelligence from the Secretariat of National Defense indicates that the area where the bodies were abandoned is under the influence of the Elite Criminal Group of Immediate Reaction, a unit of hitmen linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the two most powerful criminal organizations in Mexico. , online. reported the news portal Infobae.
The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Jalisco reported that the heads of the five victims were found in a separate bag.
The network of hitmen is led by Hugo ‘El Sapo’ González, who oversees the cartel’s operations in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta and is said to be one of the men closest to the cartel’s leader, Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera. who is wanted by the United States.
The intelligence report shows that the armed unit’s responsibility is to prevent its main rival, the Sinaloa Cartel, from establishing operations in Ojuelos and the neighboring cities of Encarnación de Díaz, Teocaltiche and Villa Hidalgo.
According to government data, 1,415 people were murdered between January and September. In comparison, 1,441 homicides were reported in all of 2023.
Authorities recorded a 37.4 percent decrease in murders in September, the lowest since September 2018, when a 30.6 percent drop was recorded.
