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Authorities recovered six severed heads on a roadworthy successful a portion of cardinal Mexico wherever specified utmost unit is rare, prosecutors said connected Tuesday.
The remains were archetypal reported by drivers utilizing a roadworthy that links the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, the prosecutors said.
Another caput and different quality remains were recovered successful the occidental metropolis of Colima, quality outlets said Tuesday.
The heads recovered successful Tlaxcala were those of men, the prosecutor's bureau said arsenic it announced an probe into the crime.
Local media said that astatine the tract of grisly find determination was a pamphlet blaming the unit connected a settling of scores betwixt gangs that rob fuel. Messages are often near connected victims' bodies by cartels seeking to endanger their rivals oregon punish behaviour they assertion violates their rules.
Both Puebla and Tlaxcala are to location to gangs that woody successful drugs and fuel. But these states are caller to this benignant of utmost unit much communal successful different parts of Mexico, which is plagued by drug-related brutality.
However successful caller months bodies person been recovered successful areas adjacent the borderline betwixt the 2 states.
Extreme unit -- specified arsenic decapitation -- is much communal successful bluish states and on the Pacific coast. Drug cartels run successful both.
On June 30, authorities recovered 20 bodies on a roadworthy successful northwest Sinaloa state, 5 of them headless.
In April 2024, authorities successful Mexico recovered 7 bodies with five of them decapitated and different wholly dismembered — with a connection connected each corpse — successful a car near successful the mediate of postulation connected a main expressway.
In April 2022, the severed heads of six men were reportedly discovered connected apical of a Volkswagen abandoned connected a engaged boulevard successful confederate Mexico. According to section authorities, a informing motion was reportedly strung from 2 trees was besides recovered astatine the gruesome scene.
The period earlier that, six heads and different assemblage parts were found connected the extortion of a car connected the main thoroughfare of Chilapa successful the confederate authorities of Guerrero.
Around 480,000 radical person died successful drug-related unit astir Mexico since 2006, erstwhile the authorities deployed national troops to instrumentality connected the country's almighty cause cartels. Another 130,000 are missing.
Last week, Mexico sent 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States successful the latest large woody with the Trump medication arsenic American authorities ratchet up unit connected transgression networks smuggling drugs crossed the border.
Earlier this month, Mr. Trump directed the military to people cause cartels successful Latin America, a root acquainted with the substance confirmed to CBS News. It's not wide if oregon erstwhile the subject could instrumentality action.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum responded by saying determination would beryllium "no penetration of Mexico."
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