Images related to the incident began to circulate on social media.
The discovery of 30 bodies in the mountains that delimit the states of Durango and Sinaloa generated a mobilization yesterday of the security forces, including elements of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) and the National Guard.
Images related to the incident began to circulate on social media, while residents of the area indicated that the bodies were found on roads and streams near the municipality of Cosalá, Sinaloa, as well as in the surroundings of the Tabacotes, La Boquilla, and Vetillas ranches, located in Tamazula, Durango.
In a press conference held on Thursday, November 14th, the Undersecretary of Public Security in Sinaloa, Leoncio Pedro García Alatorre, stated that federal forces were the ones who went to the area to investigate and asked to wait for information through official channels, although he clarified that it is not Sinaloa territory.
“In the Durango area, they are already verifying this information, and on our side as well. What we know is that it is a community or a point on the state limits, but coincidentally that point they indicate is on the Durango side.”
“As it is difficult to access, the Durango authorities have not reached the point, but we are already coordinating so that they give us information and we will act accordingly. They say, without confirming, that there are around 30 bodies scattered in a rural area.”
Leoncio Pedro García Alatorre, Undersecretary of Public Security in Sinaloa
In this sense, the governor of Sinaloa clarified that it is not the municipality of Cosalá, but Durango, and indicated that military forces are in charge of attending to the report.
The Secretary General of the Government in Durango, Héctor Vela Valenzuela, was also questioned by the press about this report. Contrary to what was said by the Sinaloa command, he assured that communication between the two state governments did not flow in the first hours.
“We do have the report, but practically on the issues that have to do with social networks and the media. Officially, we do not have information from the Sinaloa Prosecutor’s Office, the same as what happened here in Palmito in the municipality of Concordia (Sinaloa),” he said.
The official stressed that communication between the prosecutor’s offices of these two states is necessary.
“We are already taking the necessary actions so that between prosecutors’ offices, the Durango State Attorney General’s Office, and the Sinaloa Prosecutor’s Office we can share information and eventually be able to help Durango residents who are in trouble,” he stated.
“We commit to the Third Military Region (which includes Sinaloa and Durango). They have an air base in Badiraguato (Sinaloa) and they are fully prepared to send personnel and aircraft regularly to fly over as a deterrent so that no one would even think of carrying out this type of action (air explosions),” Hector Vela Valenzuela concluded.
Source: Reforma
