Eight corpses with signs of torture and a narco-message They appeared this Sunday on the highway from Chihuahua to Ciudad Juárez, on the northern border of Mexico.
The authorities found the bodies stacked on top of each other, naked, hands and feet tied with crystalline adhesive tape near the city of Chihuahua, at kilometer 37 of the highway to Ciudad Juárez, border with the American city of El Paso, Texas.
Preliminary reports indicate that all the bodies are male, with wounds caused by firearms.
The Central Zone District Attorney’s Office confirmed that some of the victims had limbs wrapped in plastic and that one of them had a message held by a knife stuck in the chest that said ‘They were going to Magdalena, now they are going anywhere. Chihuahua has an owner, understand it. Welcome!’.
Until now none of the victims are identified, as indicated by the Prosecutor’s Office, but the authorities hope that relatives approach the Public Ministry during the course of the day.
The Municipal Police cordoned off the area to allow ministerial agents and experts from the Prosecutor’s Office to collect evidence.
In addition, elements of the National Guard and the State Attorney General’s Office.
Where were the bodies found taken?
The Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) He moved the bodies to the morgue in the capital of Chihuahuacity of the same name, for later identification.
After locating the bodies, the officers They found at kilometer 85 of the highway, a burned-out truck, but the authorities have not yet confirmed or ruled out whether this discovery is related to them.
With this fact, There would be a total of 24 people found killed in a violent manner so far this month in the city of Chihuahua.
The place where the bodies were found is a site of high flow of migrantswho walk 444 kilometers from Chihuahua City to Ciudad Juárez to try to cross into the United States.
Chihuahua ranks fourth in homicides of the 32 entities of Mexico, with 495 murders of the 7,155 committed nationwide in the first quarter of the year, as reported last Tuesday by the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).
