The world's most deadliest street gang whose over 100,000 members want to top the world league for murder are suspected to have butchered four people in New York.
Police believe Mara Salvatrucha - also dubbed MS-13 - were responsible for the deaths of four males, in a park in Central Islip, a working-class community about 47 miles east of New York City.
Suffolk County Police discovered the bodies late on Wednesday in a wooded area. It wasn't instantly clear what led them to the park.
The victims "suffered from severe trauma throughout their body with a sharp instrument," county Police Commissioner Timothy Sini said.
"The way in which they were killed is in line with the modus operandi of MS-13," Sini told reporters.
MS-13 is one of the largest criminal group in the United States, with more than 6,000 members in at least 46 states and the District of Columbia, the US Attorney's Office said.
In addition, more than 30,000 MS-13 members work internationally, mostly in El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
Its members are typically identifiable by their facial and body tattoos - as well as their use of their own hand signals.
They are expected to remain loyal to the merciless gang, with punishments including the amputation of limbs and murder.
In one similarly horrific case, a pregnant gang member who had been a government informant was stabbed 16 times by two other members.
Her body was found by a pertubed fisherman on a river bank in 2003.
Although MS-13 originated in Los Angeles, its core membership reportedly comes from El Salvador.
The Mara Salvatrucha name comes from 'mara' - a Central American term for gang, salva- which refers to El Salvador, and trucha, which means trout in English, is slang term for clever .
As well as sporting large tattoos on their bodies and faces, gang members use hand signs referencing the devil to communicate.
One of the most widely publicised MS-13 crimes took place in Honduras in December 2004, when a bus was showered with automatic gunfire.
The attack, which took place just two days before Christmas Days, killed 28 civilian passengers, most of whom were women and children.
As passengers screamed and ducked, another gunman then seemingly climbed aboard and butchered passengers.
The killing was said to be in opposition at plans to bring back the death penalty.
The discovery of the bodies comes about a month after more than a dozen MS-13 members were charged in seven killings on Long Island over three years, including the deaths of several high school students last year.
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