Four human skulls found in package being sent from Mexico to US
- National Guard officers were called to the airport after an X-ray showed strange shapes inside a cardboard box
- When they opened the box, they found the skulls wrapped in plastic and aluminium foil
Authorities in central Mexico said on Friday that they had 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 wrapped in plastic and aluminium foil.
The Guard said the shipment, regardless of how the skulls were obtained or whether they items were meant for medical study, may violate Mexican laws on the handling of corpses.
No further details were given 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, the Guard said.