Just a day earlier four other people were killed in a similar way
Presumed gunmen shot dead four men in an indigenous area of the Mexican state of Michoacán (west), where 24 hours earlier four other men were killed in the same way. The Attorney General of the State of Michoacán (FGE) reported this Wednesday that it is investigating the possibility that both events are related to each other, since there are indications that point to it.
The four bodies were found this day on the edge of a dirt road that connects the towns of La Yácata and Tacátzcuaro, in the Purépecha indigenous municipality of Tingüindín. The victims show traces of torture and bullet wounds in various parts of the body, mainly in the chest and head. One of them was wearing ‘tactical’ type clothing. The bodies were sent to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo), where the bodies of the other four men who were shot to death on Tuesday morning in the same place remain.
Various drug cartels operate in the Tingüindín region, fighting blood and fire for control of the production of the synthetic drug known as ‘crystal’. These criminal organizations are the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), La Nueva Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios and Los Reyes cartels, which are fighting for control of illicit activities in the region.
Agents of the Mexican Army, the National Guard and the Michoacán Police, deployed a search operation for the alleged assassins, which allowed them to discover and destroy a ‘drug camp’ in the area known as ‘El Cenador’, on top of a mountain of the town of Tacátzcuaro. In the camp, authorities found tents, tactical clothing and drug residues, which lead the authorities to presume that the gunmen fled from there minutes before the arrival of the soldiers and police .