Human skulls package found at Mexico airport. Authorities in central Mexico said Friday they found a strange holiday-season package at a local airport: four human skulls being shipped to the United States.
Mexico’s National Guard said its officers were called to an airport in the city of Queretaro after an X-ray detected strange shapes in a cardboard box.
The box was being sent from the southern city of Apaztingan, in Michoacan state, to an address in Manning, South Carolina.
When the Guard officers opened the box, they found four Human skulls package wrapped in plastic and aluminum foil.
The Guard said the shipment, regardless of how the skulls were obtained or whether the items were meant for medical study, may violate Mexican laws on the handling of corpses.
Michoacan is one of Mexico’s most violent states, and the city of Apatzingan has long been dominated by the Viagras drug cartel.
The national guard gave no further details on the age, identity, or possible motive for the sending of the human remains.
The transfer of human remains requires a special permit from a competent health authority, which was not obtained, it said.
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico.
