A man threw a severed head at a voting station in the Terrazas del Valle neighborhood of Tijuana as Mexicans were casting votes in midterm elections
Members of the National Guard keep watch the a scene where unknown assailants left a plastic bag with human remains near a polling station, during the mid-term elections in Tijuana, Mexico June 6, 2021.
Local authorities said the man tried to run away but did not specify whether he was captured. They said they also found plastic bags with human remains and severed hands nearby.All 500 seats in the lower house, 15 state governorships and thousands of local leadership positions are up for grabs, with some 93.5 million Mexicans eligible to vote. L2N2NO05X
Security analysts said most electoral violence tends to occur at the municipal level, where gangs exert pressure to influence the outcome in the hope of securing more control over drug trafficking and other criminal rackets.Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.
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