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While Tamauli­pas author­i­ties have not con­firmed the iden­ti­ties of 19 charred bod­ies found in two burned vehi­cles in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Camar­go near the U.S. bor­der, a third-divi­sion soc­cer team in Guatemala is claim­ing one of the vic­tims as its own.

The vic­tims, who all had gun­shot wounds, were found by state author­i­ties on a dirt road in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Camar­go, along with rifles. A Camar­go offi­cial, who request­ed anonymi­ty due to secu­ri­ty con­cerns, told CBS News that the killings occurred Fri­day but that peo­ple had been afraid to report them. State author­i­ties announced the dis­cov­ery Saturday.

Tamauli­pas author­i­ties did not con­firm asser­tions made by area res­i­dents to local media that the vic­tims were Guatemalans seek­ing pas­sage to the Unit­ed States. How­ev­er, the area where the bod­ies were found — near the bor­der with Nue­vo León — is often known as “the lit­tle bor­der” and is a major smug­gling tran­sit point for both drugs and people.