Workers Refuse to Destroy Human Skull Found at Playa del Carmen Site

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo — Construction workers in Playa del Carmen discovered a human skull Saturday afternoon while clearing land for a new phase of the Real Amalfi residential development, and they said their supervisors ordered them to destroy it so work would not be delayed.

The workers refused and instead alerted authorities. The skull was found in an area being cleared for additional housing at Avenida de las Estrellas and Avenida Solidaridad, near a recently renovated bridge in the Coto 5 section of the subdivision.

The remains were uncovered as workers dug with a sledgehammer. According to the workers, site managers photographed the skull and showed it to company executives, who instructed them to crush the remains to avoid having the area sealed off by investigators. The managers said they would visit the site Sunday to assess the situation.

The workers declined. Fearing that more bones might be buried nearby, one of them secretly contacted the Playa del Carmen municipal government via WhatsApp. The city then notified the Municipal Police.

Officers confirmed the discovery and requested that the State Prosecutor’s Office conduct a search for additional remains.