Although the Attorney General of the State of Veracruz initially confirmed that they had found at least 13 dismembered, wrapped and frozen bodies in two homes belonging to criminal groups in the municipality of Poza Rica, it estimated in a later report that this number could exceed 30 bodies. amounts.

“Unfortunately, in some initial collected leads, there may be more than 13 bodies,” the prosecutor’s office said in a press release.

The finding is reported after elements of the military, state police and ministerial police conducted home inspections in the neighborhoods of Guadalupe Victoria and Torres Pancardo in Poza Rica’s municipal seat on Sunday.

In two homes used by organized crime, they found refrigerators with dismembered, wrapped and frozen bodies, so specialists from expert services began identification work in recent hours to determine the number of victims.

Poza Rica, an oil region in northern Veracruz, has been plunged into a wave of violence that authorities say is related to a dispute between rival criminal groups.

The autonomous body explained that since becoming aware of the facts, the General Directorate of Expert Services is practicing the forensic field and laboratory tests carried out in this type of case in order to establish the number of persons involved and their identities.

“All data processed on the number of persons and/or identities lack technical, real, objective and scientific support, so it is not possible to speak of a specific number at the moment,” he clarified.

The Attorney General, Verónica Hernández Giadáns, specified that the investigations began yesterday and clarified that there are not 34 bodies, as reported by local media.

attack on the drug cartel

He indicated that prosecutors, experts and the ministerial police are conducting the corresponding investigations based on the evidence found in both premises, as well as other actions that are part of the investigation file.

Over the past two decades, Veracruz has suffered violence related to the operation of drug cartels, which have diversified their activities into kidnapping, migrant smuggling and extortion.

From 2018 to last March, Veracruz was the place in Mexico where the highest number of clandestine graves were found.

Data from the Fourth Public Security Strategy Report showed that Veracruz recorded a total of 335 clandestine graves, equivalent to 11.97% of the country’s graves.