Police found the remains of four women and five men in Mexico Sunday,who were reportedly students vacationing.
According to police, the bodies were found in the municipality of San José Miahuatlán, state of Puebla.
Investigators discovered the dismembered bodies, believed to belong to missing students vacationing in Oaxaca, Mexico, near a highway. They found body parts from at least nine people inside and around an abandoned car covered by a blood-stained tarp, El Financiero reports. They also located a bag containing eight pairs of hands.
“So far I cannot offer information, there are lines of investigation, but I cannot reveal them due to confidentiality,” Idamis Pastor Betancourt, the head of the State Attorney General’s Office, said during a press conference Monday.
Central Puebla Irreverente reports that police identified only two of the bodies through their ID cards: Angie Lizeth P.G., 29, missing from Santa María Huatulco in Oaxaca since Februay 28, and Leslie N.T., 21, missing from San Pedro Pochutla in Oaxaca on the same day.
Betancourt indicated that all of the victims have not been publicly identified, “due to confidentiality.”
According to FOX News Digital, other missing students included Brenda Mariel N., Jacqueline Ailet N., Noemi Yamileth N., Raul Emmanuel N., Rubén Antonio N., and Rolando Armando N. A male victim remains unidentified.
On February 24, video surveillance recorded a vehicle, a gray Volkswagen Vento with aTlaxcala license plate, driving along the Atlixcayotl highway, around 90 miles west of the site where police found the bodies, FOX News Digital reports.
“When we have a response and the investigation is complete, we will be in a position to provide more information,” Betancourt added.
The investigation is ongoing. Check back for updates.
[feature Photos: Lesly Noya Trejo and Angie Lizeth Perez Garcia/ The Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca, Attorney General for Missing Persons from Tlaxcala.]
