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Five beheaded bodies found next to road in Mexico’s Jalisco

The decapitated bodies in plastic bags were found just a week after a Mexican mayor was beheaded.

Police in Mexico have found the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in western Jalisco state as the country’s new government faces pressure to suppress organised crime.

Drivers on the road spotted plastic bags containing the remains in the municipality of Ojuelos, in northeastern Jalisco on Sunday, the state prosecutor’s office said.

“A report was received indicating that, on the asphalt strip of the road … there were several bags that looked like human silhouettes,” it said.

National Guard members who reached the scene discovered the headless bodies of five men. Authorities also located a nearby bag believed to contain the victims’ severed heads, according to a statement from the prosecutor’s office.