Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
These shocking images show the severed heads of three people which have been found on the streets of popular tourist hotspot Cancun alongside death threats.
According to official reports, a 22-year-old woman found the remains in an abandoned area on Leonardo Rodriguez Alcain Street, next to the neighbourhood of Maya, in the city of Benito Juarez, in Cancun, in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, when she was walking towards the bus station to go to work.
The woman found three heads along with a message written on a banner and alerted the police. The Cancun Municipal Police went tot he scene to cordon it off and collect evidence.
The message reads “Antonio Villalobos, Julio Moreno, Nesguer Ignacio Vicencio Mendez, keep on selling the state to (CJNG-Jalisco New Generation Cartel) sons of b*tches, you are going to die!”
The threats were made against Julio Cesar Moreno Orendain, the Vice Prosecutor of the General Prosecution of the State in the northern area as well as Antonio Villalobos Carrillo, a Judicial State Advisor, and Sub-Secretary of Public Safety Nesguer Ignacio Vicencio Mendez.
Another three people were also mentioned in the message.
It is unclear who signed the message and forensic investigators have taken the heads to try to identify the victims. Their identities have not been reported and it is unclear where their bodies are.
Local media report several cartels work in the area including the Golfo Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Los Rojos Cartel, along with the Dona Lety gang which has links to the Sinaloa Cartel formerly led by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.
No arrests have been reported.
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