{"id":28859,"date":"2022-12-31T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28859"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:51","slug":"a-box-destined-for-the-us-from-mexico-contained-4-human-skulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/31\/a-box-destined-for-the-us-from-mexico-contained-4-human-skulls\/","title":{"rendered":"A box destined for the US from Mexico contained 4 human skulls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four human skulls were discovered inside a package at a Mexican airport that was due to be sent by courier to the United States, local authorities say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The skulls were found wrapped in aluminium foil inside a cardboard box at Queretaro intercontinental airport in central\u00a0Mexico, the national guard said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The package had been sent from the western coastal state of Michoacan \u2013 one of the most violent parts of the country \u2013 and was destined for an address in Manning, South Carolina, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"3bc49df8-b4b5-4b17-9458-c881c049930b\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2d2cab19e39881012b9c5fc10e78906fecc5b6b6\/134_585_759_455\/master\/759.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=85&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"The skulls detected in the package by X-ray equipment at Queretaro airport\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The skulls detected in the package by X-ray equipment at Queretaro airport.&nbsp;Photograph: Mexico\u2019S Guardia Nacional\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national guard gave no further details on the age, identity or possible motive for the sending of the human remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transfer of human remains requires a special permit from a competent health authority, which was not obtained, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four human skulls were discovered inside a package at a Mexican airport that was due to be sent by courier to the United States, local authorities say. The skulls were found wrapped in aluminium foil inside a cardboard box at Queretaro intercontinental airport in central\u00a0Mexico, the national guard said on Friday. The package had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9951,5754,948,10453,12634,9180,2702,3797,1510,9181,11973,12727,9182,10838,9262,6348,10353],"class_list":["post-28859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-age","tag-airport","tag-aluminium","tag-guard","tag-health","tag-human-skull","tag-identity","tag-mexican","tag-mexico","tag-michoacan","tag-one","tag-package","tag-queretaro","tag-south-carolina","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52234,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859\/revisions\/52234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}