
Bodies of 5 University Students Found in Car in a Violence-Wracked City in Mexico
Published on December 5, 2023
MEXICO CITY—The bodies of five university students were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said Monday. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings. The car and the bodies of the victims, all young men, were found Sunday in a rural area on the outskirts of the city of Celaya, which has seen a spate of drug cartel violence in recent years. The area is located outside a local university. The Latina University of Mexico wrote in a statement Monday that all five were students there. It said the university was suspending classes Monday in mourning....
