‘Hooded men’ jump from truck and hang ‘tortured’ woman from busy motorway bridge
Hooded men were seen jumping from a pickup truck and hanging a young woman from a busy motorway bridge.
Drivers passing under the bridge in Rincón de Tamayo, Guanajuato, Mexico, were horrified as the lifeless body swung in the wind.
It was first spotted at around 11.40pm on Wednesday (April 19) on the Salvatierra-Celaya highway.
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Police were flooded with calls from horrified motorists who reported bruises and cuts all over her body.
Municipal Police and the National Guard both responded to the scene and cordoned it off immediately when they arrived, then calling in the State Attorney General's Office.
Detectives from the Specialised Homicide Unit then arrived before the body was cut down. It has now been taken for forensic analysis as investigations continue.
Although the woman is yet to be formally identified, local reports say she is 19-year-old Perla Cristal Gavina Ordaz. She reportedly went missing from Mexico City, some 250km away, on April 9.
It is thought she left on a trip with her friends and that two men she was travelling with could be involved in her disappearance.
Locals in Rincón de Tamayo say they spotted hooded men tying the rope to a retaining barrier before attaching the body to the other end and letting it fall.
They were then spotted fleeing the scene.
An autopsy is now underway to establish the cause of death.
Authorities are yet to confirm drug cartel involvement in the killing.
Last year, the state of Guanajuato was Mexico's most deadly with 3,260 homicides, the vast majority of which were cartel related.
The state is already leading the figures this year with more than 500 homicides as of March.
It has become Mexico's murder capital due to an ongoing war between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the local Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL).
Local security expert David Saucedo toldBorderland Beat the two groups are fighting for control of both the drugs trade and the state's fuel theft racket.
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