Two young cousins and a 15 year-old girl were tortured and killed in a video livestreamed to a warped audience. 

According to Argentine authorities, Morena Verri and Brenda del Castillo, both aged 20, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, went missing on Friday after being enticed into a van with the allure of attending a party.

Their dismembered bodies were located on Wednesday, buried in the backyard of a residence about 16 miles from Buenos Aires, following police tracking of their mobile phones.

Police believe the women were taken to a house and accused of stealing drugs before they were horrifically tortured and killed on camera.  

Officials have revealed that the victims’ torture and murder were streamed live to a group of approximately 45 people on social media, describing the incident as a ‘narco-femicide,’ according to CNN.

Gutierrez had the five fingers on her left hand and one ear cut off before she was killed, La Nacion reported. 

Meanwhile del Castillo was stabbed to death before her abdomen was cut open. 

Three Argentinian women were tortured and killed on a livestream after they were lured into a van on Friday near Buenos Aires

Morena Verri, 20, was one of the victims found dismembered and buried in the backyard of a home in a Buenos Aires suburb

Brenda del Castillo, 20, was stabbed to death before her abdomen was cut open, officials said

During the broadcast, someone was heard saying: ‘This is what happens to anyone who steals drugs from me.’

Six people have been arrested in connection with the killings, and police are still looking for six other suspects. 

Authorities suspect the victims were targeted by a 22-year-old drug trafficker from Peru, identified as Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, also known by his alias ‘Pequeño J,’ as noted by Infobae.

Officials said they believe the drug trafficker was trying to send a message to others with the broadcast of the killings.  

Despite various reports suggesting that the murders were live-streamed on Instagram, Meta has denied this, stating to People that they have not found any evidence supporting such activity on their platform.

‘Our team continues to cooperate with law enforcement as they investigate this horrific crime,’ Meta said. 

‘I want them all behind bars,’ Brenda’s mother Paula said, according to CNN. 

‘They tore my daughter away from me. My daughter was a good girl. And none of these three girls deserved to end up how they did.’

Lara Gutierrez, 15, had the five fingers on her left hand and one ear cut off before she was killed

Detectives suspect the victims were selected by the 22-year-old Peruvian drug dealer, Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, nicknamed ‘Pequeño J.’

Meanwhile the grandfather of del Castillo and Verdi said: ‘They have taken two beautiful young girls from our lives. 

‘And not just that they took them… Do you know what those girls must have suffered, the pain they must have felt in their bodies? And now, we want to ask for justice, but what justice can we ask for, if they grab the guy that sells 100 grams of drugs but they don’t touch the people bringing it into the country?’

The murders have drawn outrage in Argentina, where activists organized a massive protest to highlight violence against women in the South American nation.