At least five human skulls, several charred bodies, six injured people and several missing are the toll, so far, of a new armed attack in the Heliodoro Castillo mountain range, a municipality in the state of Guerrero, south of Mexico.
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He strokewhich occurred last Thursday in the community of Buena Vista de los Hurtado, was denounced on Friday by the priest Filiberto Velázquez Florencio, director of the Minerva Bello Human Rights Center, who initially spoke of 30 deaths, this based on received calls for help, but this day he corrected his version.
That same Friday, the religious moved to the area of the attack located in the Sierra de Warrior and difficult to access, where it reached the state and federal security operation who came to corroborate the facts.
This Saturday, when they arrived at the scene of the incident, they found a burned-out truck with human remains and, according to the priest, they could be counted. at least five skulls.
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The same fact was reported six injured and an unknown number of missing people.
“After having arrived at the community of Buenavista de los Hurtado Cashacuauilt together with security institutions from the three levels of government – municipal, state and federal – we were able to verify the presence of a burned vehicle in which an undetermined number of bodies were found. burned, the existence of at least 5 skulls was seen,” the priest detailed in a statement.
According to the version that residents told Velázquez Florencio, the attacks, attributed to the criminal group La Familia Michoacana, began at noon on Thursday with drones loaded with explosives. Subsequently, a group of 30 people was attacked with Firearms.
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The discovery of the charred bodies was made public in a video that circulated on social networks in which the alleged criminals show a group of murdered men on a truck, some dismembered. They wore military-type clothing and were allegedly part of the self-defense group that operates in Tlacotepec.
On Friday, the State Public Security Secretariat reported that State Police agents, in coordination with the National Defense Secretariat, National Guard and State Attorney General’s Office, carried out security and surveillance tours in the town of Buenavista de los Hurtado, in the municipality of General Heliodoro Castillo, since “according to citizen reports, an incident of violence”.
Drone attacks In that area of the mountains they have been registered since August 2023 as part of La Familia Michoacana’s attempts to invade that territory in which, according to the Mexican Government, El Cartel de la Sierra operates.
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Criminal violence has not given a truce in Warrior so far in 2024. In this first week, murders have been recorded in Acapulco, Iguala and in the capital, Chilpancingo.
