Locals found a decapitated head in a black box on the roadside by a bank in Culiacan, Sinaloa before police went on to find another head a few metres away
Two human heads were left on the roadside near a bank as police investigate the chilling discovery.
Police rushed to the scene in Culiacan, Sinaloa when the first body part was found on Wednesday. It was located inside a black box on the outskirts of the Mexican town of Tepuche, by a branch of the Bienestar bank.
And then on Thursday morning while detectives continued their investigation of the site, they found a second head which was only a few metres away. The heads have been taken away for forensic examinations. Local media reports one of the victims to be a 23-year-old who had been missing. The other victim is also believed to be from the town.
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Violence continues to grip Mexico with an upsurge following the killing of El Mencho, who was the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. He died after a military operation last month.
El Mencho was Mexico’s most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States’ most wanted narco fugitives. His death during an attempt to capture him in Jalisco state was the highest-profile blow against cartels since the capture of former Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, a decade ago.
Mexico’s defense secretary Ricardo Trevilla said the army and national guard launched an operation in the southern part of Jalisco state to capture El Mencho, involving the Mexican air force and special forces. Intelligence gathered about one of El Mencho’s romantic partners led them to his hideout, he said.
The cartel counterattacked, and in the ensuing confrontation federal forces killed eight members of the criminal group. El Mencho and two of his bodyguards were wounded and died later during transfer by air to Mexico City, Trevilla said.
Rocket launchers capable of shooting down aircraft and destroying armoured vehicles were seized at the scene.
Omar García Harfuch, secretary for security in Claudia Sheinbaum’s Mexican government, says the country will have a “zero impunity” for drug traffickers. Donald Trump has threatened higher taxes if the country does not make steps to stop the supply of drugs over the border into the US.
Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA, said Mexico had sent “a strong message to Donald Trump’s administration that they are fighting aggressively and effectively” against the most powerful cartels. He added of the operation against El Mencho, that “the majority of the information came from the Mexican armed forces and all credit goes to Mexico.”