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So far this six-year term, Veracruz adds almost 4, 000 intentional homicides, becoming one of the states with the highest murder rate in Mexico.
As sample, this weekend 12 people were violently murdered, four of them dismembered.
The events occurred on Friday, Saturday and early Sunday in the municipalities of Atoyac, Yanga, Omealca, Sayula de Alemán, Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos.
On Saturday nine murders were reported, four of them shocked society when the remains of three were found men and a woman dismembered in the municipality of Atoyac, central mountainous area of Veracruz.
The human remains were abandoned on the Córdoba-Paso del Macho highway, d where a narcomensaje was left with threats to police chiefs in the area.
In Yanga reported the shooting murder of a woman aged 80 old; in Sayula de Alemán, two bodies were abandoned on a rural road; in Minatitlán they shot and killed two individuals in two different events; while in Omealca, the owner of a bar was kidnapped and, later, his lifeless body was abandoned on the public highway.
They murdered two gay men in Coatzacoalcos. Veracruz continues to be by far the state with the highest violence against LGBTI + people in the country. https://t.co/YJ3k9JBM9O
– Ricardo Baruch D. (@baruchdom) December 6, 2021