Nine Missing Students Found Dismembered Along Mexican Highway

The victims, aged 19 to 30, were discovered in an abandoned car near the Oaxaca-Puebla border with evidence pointing to cartel involvement.

The bodies of nine individuals, believed to be students from Tlaxcala, were found dismembered in and around an abandoned car in San José Miahuatlán, on the Oaxaca-Puebla border.
The victims, four women and five men aged 19 to 30, showed signs of bullet wounds and torture, with a bag containing eight pairs of severed hands also recovered at the scene.
Two victims, Angie Lizeth Pérez García, 29, and Lesly Noya Trejo, 21, were identified through ID cards found at the site, while others remain under investigation.
Authorities are investigating cartel involvement due to the brutality of the killings, but no suspects have been named and no arrests have been made.
The case has drawn attention to Mexico's ongoing struggles with violence and impunity, as officials from three states—Puebla, Oaxaca, and Tlaxcala—work to coordinate their investigations.