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This is the heartbreaking moment cartel gunmen dumped human remains on a street in eastern Mexico before firing several shots into the air and speeding away.
A witness stood on a balcony several dozen meters away and filmed the killers taking the mutilated bodies out of an SUV in a square in the municipality of Cazones de Herrera on Monday.
At least three of the suspects stood near their vehicle and opened up with their assault rifles and abandoned the area where the name of the city is written in large colorful blocks located in front of the town hall.
Graphic photos posted on social media showed a severed head lying next to one of the torsos belonging to two people.
The rest of the body parts were scattered on the ground under the curious gaze of onlookers.
Gunmen from the Veracruzana mafia cartel were seen dumping the body parts of two people on a street in Cazones de Herrera, Mexico, on Monday. No arrests were made
A Mexican criminal organization known as the Veracruzana mafia cartel dumped the dismembered bodies of two people in front of the town hall of the Gulf town of Cazones de Herrera on Monday.
The Veracruzana mafia cartel claimed responsibility for the barbaric incident, according to a sign the gunmen left behind.
“Here we are, damn dogs. We just got them out of their caves, damn rat caves,” the sign read.
The Office of the Secretary of Public Security and Attorney General of the State of Veracruz launched Operation Code Red after the discovery of the body parts and activated a search mission to locate the cartel members.
The attorney general’s office said it was investigating whether Monday’s incident was linked to the four bodies dumped in the town of Tuxpan on March 2.
A police officer in Cazones de Herrera, Mexico, takes images of the crime scene where the dismembered bodies of at least two people were dumped Monday by cartel gunmen.
The Veracruzana mafia cartel claimed responsibility for dumping human remains in front of Herrera’s Cazones, leaving behind a sign reading: “We are here, damn dogs.” We just got them out of their caves, damn rat caves.
A passerby filmed the moment Veracruzana mafia cartel gunmen dumped human remains on a street in broad daylight Monday.
It is unclear whether the Veracruzana mafia cartel was also responsible for dumping these bodies.
The cartel formed around 2017 and is made up of former members of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas and is one of six criminal organizations present in Veracruz.
It controls drug trafficking in the municipalities of Veracruz, Tuxpan, Poza Rica, Coatzintla and Tihuatlán.
In February, the group displayed 15 narco banners throughout the town of Poza Riza, Veracruz, threatening rival groups and claiming responsibility for the 15 severed bodies that had been dumped in Tuxpan a week earlier.