The grim discovery of six bags containing human remains in Guerrero, Mexico, are only the latest bodies to be found in the state, which is one of the country’s most violent
Guerrero has long been plagued by violence(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Police investigating six plastic bags dumped in an commercial complex were horrified to discover they contained the dismembered remains of three men.
Officers with municipal law enforcement in Mexico were called to the Acapulco Diamante region of Guerrero state following reports and anonymous tips from the Playa Dinamita area. Tippers had alerted authorities on January 9 after the half a dozen suspicious plastic bags were dumped behind the La Isla, a commercial complex.
Investigators arriving at the scene at around 9pm confirmed the bags contained the heads and limbs of three male victims, marking the latest case of disarticulated remains being discovered in Guerrero.
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The bodies were taken to a morgue in the town of El Quemado, but none of the three have been identified by authorities in the days following the discovery. The grim find last week is not the first of its kind, with federal investigators descending on Acapulco in April 2025 following the discovery of plastic bags holding the remains of a single victim.
The Latin Times reported that the National Guard, State Police, Navy, and the State Attorney General’s forensic specialists collected bags containing a victim missing arms, legs and their head.
Sources told the publication that a threatening note was also found nearby the body that appeared to have been signed by a criminal group officials at the time couldn’t identify. The same month, the bodies of 11 murdered victims were found in the Tecoanapa municipality following clases between rival gangs.
Previous decaptitations have been attributed to the “La Barredora” gang, which operates in Guerrero, with one note seemingly signed by the group placed at a grisly crime scene of six severed heads in August last year.
The heads were found on a road linking the central Mexican states of Puebla and Tlaxcala, which are not typically associated with cartel violence. Police were unable to provide a motive for the brutal killings, but local publications reported a blanket was left at the scene with a threatening note.
The note was reportedly a warning issued to rival gangs signed by La Barredora, which translates to “the sweeper”. However, it was unclear whether the gang was directly involved in the killings.
Guerrero is one of the country’s states with the most recorded homicides, accounting with five others for almost half of murders in Mexico. Most of those murders have been linked to drug trafficking, and the foreign office advises against “all but essential travel” to the state.
Violence in the state became so bad in 2024 that Catholic bishops were forced to step in and help smooth over gang relations by forging a truce between two warring cartels.
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