Six cut heads found on the road

Six cut heads were found on a road in central Mexico, in an area not normally associated with the violence of the cartel.

Local authorities discovered early Tuesday morning on a road that connects largely peaceful states of Puebla and Tlaxcala.

Police did not give a reason for the murders or said which of criminal groups operating in Mexico could have made them.

The local media reported that a cover had been left to the scene with a message issuing a warning to rival gangs and apparently signed by a group called “La Barredora”, meaning “the sweeper”.

It is the same name as a little -known criminal group operating in the western state of Guerrero, but it is not clear if it was behind the attack or why.

The local prosecutor’s office said that the chiefs found in Tlaxcala were those of men and that he had launched an investigation into the killings, according to the AFP news agency.

In addition to drug trafficking, there is a problem in the region with fuel smuggling, known as “Huachicolea”, which generates billions of dollars per year for groups behind illegal activity.

So far, the federal authorities have not commented on the murders.

They come in the midst of a major repression of the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum on fentanyl traffic.

Puebla and Tlaxcala are not subject to the type of violence of an extreme prominent cartel in other parts of the country.

In June, the bodies of 20 people – four of whom beheaded – were found in Sinaloa, a state seized by the violence of the gangs.

Seven young Mexicans were also killed during a shooting during a Catholic Church festivity in the central state of Guanajuato in May.

The violence between cartels has increased in recent years, with hundreds of thousands of people killed and tens of thousands of people who have disappeared since the start of the government to use the Mexican army against gangs in 2006.