Bodies of 5 University Students Found in Car in a Violence-Wracked City in Mexico

Police officers patrol in Celaya, Guanajuato State, Mexico, in a file photo. Mario Armas/AFP via Getty Images

MEXICO CITY—The bodies of five university students were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said Monday.

Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings.