Five beheaded bodies are found sprawled on Mexico road

by · Mail Online

The bodies of five decapitated men were found on a road in Mexico on Sunday.

The remains were abandoned along a stretch of a highway 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 that the National Guard received a call at 7.05am from a person indicating there were several bags appearing to contain human bodies and severed heads.

Agents from the prosecutor's office were dispatched to the site, where they were able to confirm the gruesome findings.

Authorities investigate the scene where five decapitated bodies were found in the western Mexico town of Ojuelos on Sunday

A grim image leaked on social media showed the men with their hands tied and their jeans lowered to their ankles.

Additional photos showed the bruised faces of several victims, which indicate that they were beaten and tortured before they were killed.

The state prosecutor's office said it was unable to determine the identities of the five victims.

Ministry of National Defense intelligence indicates that the area where the bodies were abandoned is under the influence of the Immediate Reaction Criminal Elite Group, a unit of assassins linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the two most powerful criminal organizations in Mexico, online news portal Infobae reported.

The Jalisco State Attorney General's Office said the heads of the five victims were found in a separate bag

The network of hired killers is led by Hugo 'El Sapo' González, who oversees the cartel's operations in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta and is said to be one of the closest men to the cartel 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 setting up 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 registered a 37.4 percent decrease in murders in September, the lowest since September 2018 which saw a 30.6 percent drop.