Blood was flowing from the back of the vehicle: eleven bodies including two children discovered in a van in Mexico

The bodies of 11 people, including two women and two children, were found in a van on the Del Sol highway in the town of Chilpancingo, capital of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.

Bodies covered in clothes

According to initial information, the bodies were found during the night from Wednesday to Thursday after calls from several motorists who reported an abandoned van on the road that connects the port of Acapulco to Mexico City.

Blood was leaking from the back of the van, clothes and a tarp covered what were believed to be human bodies, the media says However.

17 people missing last week

Experts from the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) and the Ministerial Police went to the scene and found a white double-cab van with the keys still in the ignition. The bodies were in a cargo box.

The prosecution indicated last week that it was investigating the disappearance of 17 people, including 5 minors, in the same area. However, he did not specify whether the two cases were linked.