Mexico’s attorney general’s office is investigating a possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers that left five men dead last month in Nuevo Laredo, an official said.
A video, originally reported on Tuesday by US-based Univision and Spain’s El Pais newspaper, apparently shows the daytime incident.
The federal official, who was not authorized to comment on the case and requested anonymity, said that the office had opened an investigation.
Security footage shows a black pickup truck crashing full speed into a wall. A Mexican military truck with a gun turret arrives shortly thereafter and runs into the passenger side of the pickup, blocking the front and back doors.
Soldiers then pull five men from the pickup, disarming and kicking them, then lining them up against the wall.
Soldiers then turn back toward the road and appear to open fire. Their apparent attackers are out of frame. Some soldiers, while sheltering behind the pickup, turn their guns on the men against the wall.
Later, the soldiers walk around the scene calmly. One, using a red bag apparently to avoid leaving fingerprints, picks up guns and places them next to the bodies.
Separately, authorities said that human remains discovered in bags in a ravine in Jalisco state last week belong to eight call center employees reported missing.
The discovery was made last week at the bottom of a 40m ravine in the municipality of Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, a large industrial hub.
Forensic evidence “confirms that [the remains] correspond to the young people who ... had been reported missing,” the Jalisco State Government said in a statement.
Authorities did not indicate how the people died.
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