Veracruz: 15 Murders in 24 hrs, a human head went unnoticed in front of town hall

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  from eConsulta.com Veracruz La Silla Rota

A human head went unnoticed for 5 hours in a cooler in front of a town hall

The decapitated head could belong to the decapitated body found in the morning of the same Sunday wrapped in carpet in Colonia Linda Vista.

After the murder of three people in the city of Fortín and the discovery of human remains,  the finding of a human head was reported, abandoned inside a cooler in a park in front of the Municipal Palace. Although the cooler containing the head was in plain sight amid busy pedestrian traffic, it went unnoticed for 5 hours.

According to information from ministerial authorities, the head could belong to the decapitated body found in the morning of the same Sunday wrapped in a carpet in Colonia Linda Vista of that municipality; now it must be corroborated.

15 killings in less than 24 hours, Saturday - Sunday mainly in Cordoba and Orizaba, 3 in 40 minutes

The wave of homicides caused that neighbors of the locality of Tecamalucan , of the municipality of Acultzingo , burned buses, tires and blocked the highway to Tehuacán, Puebla, to protest and to defend itself of the organized delinquency.

The residents, with cardboard, requested the intervention of the governor, Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, who was in Boca del Río with all his security cabinet, reviewing the last details for the Salsa Festival 2019, which starts next week.

The day began on Saturday morning, when law enforcement officers found four bodies in the city of Minatitlan, south of the Veracruz entity.

The victims were tied hand and foot; no one located those responsible, despite the National Guard operations imposed since the massacre in which killed 13 citizens, including a child of one year.

At dawn that same day, in Huiloapan, near Orizaba, an armed commando shot at a house killing a 27-year-old woman, a gas station attendant, who was sleeping when she was killed..

In Vega de Alatorre, the authorities found three young people killed, all had the coup de grace and traces of torture. The rigorous survey was done by expert services.

On the boulevard Córdoba-Fortín de las Flores, two boys were shot in the atrium of a church, when a mass was being held inside to celebrate a young girl's fifteenth birthday.

The victims, aged 24 and 17, brothers, were guests of the celebration. Their executioners intercepted them at the doors of the "Espirito Santo" temple, in the National Cruise congregation.

The attack caused the Archdiocese of the Catholic Church , in Xalapa, and the Bishopric of Córdoba, to condemn the violence that prevails throughout the state of Veracruz.

Minutes later, a man was also shot to death inside his vehicle.

In Tecamalucan , in the municipality of Acultzingo , in the Orizaba area, an armed group fired six men, between 19 and 24 years old, who were talking outside the town's hardware store.

The balance of that new massacre was two deaths. In addition, to the two fatalities, the other four injured remain in serious condition in a hospital in Ciudad Mendoza.

At dawn on Sunday, one person was killed in the colony El Paraíso, in Córdoba, which mobilized the emergency corps.

Later, in the north of the state, a man was shot dead inside a bar in the municipality of Pueblo Viejo, one more was injured.