Nineteen Charred Bodies Found Near Mexico-US Border
Sumaira FH Published January 25, 2021 | 09:10 AM
Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Jan, 2021 ) :At least 19 charred corpses have been discovered in Mexico near the US border in an area where drug cartels often clash, the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office said.
Police on Saturday found two burnt-out vehicles containing human remains on a country road near the town of Camargo.
Preliminary investigations suggested the victims had been shot, then their bodies set alight.
Because no bullet casings were found at the scene, police said it was possible the victims were killed in a different location.
Autopsies are underway, but identification of the corpses will be complicated due to their condition, a source from the prosecutor's office said.
Another official from the prosecutor's office, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP that an investigation has been launched to determine whether the victims were undocumented migrants, as some local media have reported.
The official said they have contacted Guatemalan consular authorities in Mexico "to provide the necessary information and try to identify some of the people believed to be Guatemalan migrants.
" Camargo, a town of about 15,000 people, borders the US state of Texas and is near the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.
Authorities from Nuevo Leon are cooperating with the Tamaulipas prosecutor's office.
The region sees frequent clashes between the Noreste cartel, which controls a part of Nuevo Leon, and the Gulf cartel, which has been active in Tamaulipas for decades.
In January 2019, in the neighboring town of Miguel Aleman, 24 corpses were found, of which 15 were charred.
In August 2010, a group of 72 undocumented migrants were killed in San Fernando, in Tamaulipas. Authorities said the massacre was perpetrated by the Zetas cartel, one of the most powerful at the time.
Tamaulipas, on Mexico's Gulf coast, is the shortest route to the United States but also the most dangerous because of the presence of criminal gangs, which kidnap, extort and murder migrants.
Mexico recorded 34,523 assassinations in 2020, a slight decrease on 2019's figure of 34,608, which was a record high since official tallies started.
Cartel-related violence has beset Mexico since 2006, with more than 300,000 killings since then.
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