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Probers say the clash was between the powerful Sinaloa cartel and another gang identified as ‘Chiapas and Guatemala’.
Authorities in Mexico have connected a bloody territorial fight between rival gangs to the discovery of dozens of bodies in a truck.
In the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, at least 19 dead were found in or near a dump truck, according to authorities on Tuesday. The area has been beset by a recent upsurge in gang violence associated with drug and migrant trafficking.
The male remains were discovered on Monday in an abandoned dump truck on a rural road close to the town of La Concordia, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
At least six of the fatalities, according to the officials, were guys with identity credentials from Guatemala who were shot to death.
It is thought that the horrific discovery was made on Friday close to the Guatemalan border, where there has been an increase in violence in recent years.
According to a preliminary inquiry, the conflict involved the Sinaloa cartel, which is among the most influential in Mexico, and a different organization known as the “Chiapas and Guatemala” cartel.
In a statement, the ministry said that the two parties were at odds over “criminal control of the border area.”.
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The nonprofit group Insight Crime claims that the Chiapas region is crucial to the flow of weapons, drugs, and migrants into the United States.
Thousands of people have fled their homes as a result of the recent spike in violence.
Additionally, it has forced the government to send out 1,200 more troops to bolster the nation’s southern border with Guatemala.
Since former President Felipe Calderon’s administration launched a military operation against drug cartels in 2006, more than 450,000 people have died in Mexico as a result of rising criminal violence.
Claudia Sheinbaum, who was elected in June and will succeed Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in October, was momentarily arrested by hooded men who pulled over her car during this year’s presidential campaign. The incident did not injure her.
Due to an increase in violence that made it impossible to set up polling places, voting was suspended in two towns in Chiapas State.
