Nine Missing Students Found Dismembered in Mexico

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

The bodies of nine students, including four women and five men, were found dismembered along a highway in San José Miahuatlán, Mexico, on March 2.
The remains were located inside a dark gray Volkswagen Vento and under a blood-stained tarp, alongside a bag containing eight pairs of severed hands.
The victims, who had traveled from Tlaxcala to Oaxaca for vacation, were last seen in late February; some were identified through ID cards found at the scene.
Authorities report signs of torture and bullet wounds on the bodies, and investigations are ongoing, but no suspects have been named or motives disclosed.
The case has raised concerns about cartel violence, with local officials from Puebla, Oaxaca, and Tlaxcala collaborating to determine the circumstances of the killings.