Mexican cartel murders 12 and dumps their burned bodies on the back of a truck in revenge attack on rival gang who beheaded one of their members
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- Police on Saturday found the burned bodies of 12 suspected members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel on the side of a road in Michoacán, Mexico
- The corpses were stacked up on the back of a pickup truck that was abandoned by purported members of the Familia Michoacana gang in the city of Huetamo
- The gruesome murders were believed be a response to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel killing a suspected member of Familia Michoacana
- In a video shared on social media last Thursday, purported members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel interrogate a young man identified as 'El Vago'
- A second video showed the moment El Vago was beheaded
A Mexican drug cartel killed and burned the bodies of 12 rival gang members in a shocking revenge attack.
Police in the city of Huetamo, Mexico, made the gruesome discovery of the dozen charred bodies Saturday.
The victims, alleged members of the feared Jalisco New Generation Cartel, were stacked on top of each other on the vehicle's flatbed and covered with tarps outside the entrance to a ranch in town of El Terreno Prieto.
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The Familia Michoacana claimed responsibility for attack by leaving behind a poster board with a Spanish written message for Alejandro 'Chito Cano,' who reportedly is head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel's operations in Michoacán.
The sign read: 'Forgive me Chito Cano. I forgot your Mother's Day gift but I send it to you here. ATTN: La Michoacana Familia.'
The Michoacán Secretariat of Public Security did not provide information on when the killings took place. The abandoned Nissan NP300 pickup truck had been reported stolen in September 2019 in Mexico City.
According to Michoacán Attorney General's office, all of the bodies displayed signs of torture and said the incident could have been a vengeful act carried out by the Michoacana Familia.
'In regards to the event's modus operandi, it is not ruled out that the crime is due to a settling of accounts between members of organized crime due to drug trafficking,' the state attorney general said in a statement.
Video footage leaked by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel last Thursday showed a purported member of the Familia Michoacana being interrogated by armed men. A second showed the moment the young man, who identified himself as 'El Vago,' was beheaded.
Separate video footage distributed across social media in early May captured members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel taunting what appeared to be the bodies of three of the 10 Familia Michoacana members they had allegedly killed.
The bodies were dragged on a dirt road and placed atop each other.
The feud between the Familia Michoacana and Jalisco New Generation Cartel goes back several years and intensified in February when Chito Cano's henchmen appeared in a video threatening to wipe out the Familia Michoacana from existence in the State of Mexico.
Both groups have been locked in a turf war over the state of Michoacán, located off Mexico's Pacific coast.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is led by Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, a former ally of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán. The Drug Enforcement Agency is offering a $10million reward for information leading to his arrest.