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The decapitated bodies of five men were found on a road in central Mexico in an area controlled by the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel.
Police were called to the scene after a motorist discovered a plastic bag containing a body on a road near the town of Ohuelos, Jalisco, on Sunday morning.
Forensic experts are working to identify the victims, officials said.
The brutality of the murder and the abandonment of the body in public clearly point to the involvement of drug cartels.
The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said the National Guard was also at the scene and found a body wrapped in a black plastic bag.
It added that the victim’s age has not yet been determined and an investigation has begun.
This year, 1,415 people were killed in Jalisco between January and September, according to official figures.
More than 30,000 people are murdered each year in Mexico, making it one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Last week, the mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence was murdered less than a week after taking office.
Alejandro Arcos was killed in Chilpancingo, a city of about 280,000 people in southwestern Guerrero state.
President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office last week, ruled out a return to the previous administration’s drug war.
He said his security plan would focus on gathering intelligence on cartels and addressing the social causes of violence, a strategy his predecessor Andres Manuel López Obrador called “hugs, not bullets.” I called it.
But opposition parties are calling for tougher action against gangs.
Since the government first began using Mexican troops against the cartels in 2006, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and tens of thousands more are missing.
