Two months after the abduction of 43 missing students made national headlines and created a controversial political storm in the county, local authorities discovered eleven mutilated corpses alongside a road in the same state on Thursday, The Guardian reported.

The unidentified bodies, many of them decapitated and burnt, were found near the city of Chilapa, an area that is known for gang violence and plantations of opium poppies, a law enforcement official said, adding that the rural teachers' college known as Ayotzinapa, which the 43 students belonged to, was not far from the crime area, The Guardian reported.

Local media photographs also showed that some of the naked torsos of the corpses had been burnt.

Just hours after Thursday's horrific discovery was made, President Enrique Pena Nieto was set to announce a series of measures to improve law and order in a land grappling with daily drug gang violence.

"Nieto has been under pressure from mass protests to end impunity and rampant brutality by security forces since the 43 students were abducted," UK MailOnline reported. "Details of his plan have not been announced, but government officials have tried several similar anti-crime plans in the past, with mixed results."

On Sept. 26-27, Iguala city police attacked a group of students rallying to protest against government policies. Six people were killed, more than two dozen injured and more than 50 students vanished. About 15 eventually were found hiding in their homes, but 43 remained missing, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The Aytozinapa Normal school, attended by the missing students, was known for militant and radical protests that often involved hijacking buses and delivery trucks, according to Fox News.

Within days, 22 police officers were arrested for what prosecutors said was the unjustifiable use of excessive force. They are believed to have been penetrated by criminal organizations and a drug gang, known as the Guerreros Unidos, at whose behest the police might have been acting. Later in the investigation, it was alleged that the police had also acted under orders of the former Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife.

Then earlier in November, suspected gang members reportedly confessed that the 43 Mexican students were loaded onto dump trucks, murdered at a landfill, burned beyond recognition and tossed into the San Juan River in Cocul.

Meanwhile, more than 20,000 people are registered as having disappeared in Mexico in the past eight years. Most of them have never been found.