Two human heads were found at polling stations in the city of Tijuana on Sunday.
This discovery was made in this Mexican city bordering the United States during the legislative and local elections.
A ballot which also saw Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party emerge weakened from this vote which had taken the form of a mid-term test for the left-wing Mexican president.
In a first incident, when the polling stations had been open for just over an hour, a man approached and threw a human head inside.
The ballot was temporarily disrupted and the intervention of the police was necessary to take the lead.
Hours later, at a polling station in the same area, a man walked up and left another head and dismembered human remains in a wooden box, placed right next to the ballot box.
Near another polling station, bags containing human remains were also found, according to the prosecutor's report.
This series of incidents occurred in the same electoral district of Tijuana, on the edge of San Diego, in the US state of California.
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heart of the drug-related violence, Tijuana has been the scene of gruesome discoveries of human remains. A few years ago, a naked body was found hanging from a bridge with its fingers and tongue cut off, sewn together and placed around its neck. Another man was found hanged, naked and with his genitals in his mouth.
Mexico held elections on Sunday to renew the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and elect more than 20,000 local officials. The campaign has been marked by violence, with 89 politicians killed since September 2020, including 36 candidates or pre-candidates, according to consulting firm Etellekt. According to official figures, more than 300,000 people have been killed in Mexico since 2006, when the federal government launched a major military operation against the drug cartels.
On a political level, the party in power in Mexico lost the absolute majority and the qualified majority with its allies in the Chamber of Deputies, according to a first official estimate. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party will have between 190 and 203 of the 500 seats, losing the absolute majority (half plus one) on its own and the qualified majority (two thirds) it enjoyed with its 3 allied parties.