2023-06-02 06:41:35
Mexico City (AFP) – At least 45 packages of human remains were found in a ravine in the western state of Jalisco as police searched for seven young men who were reported missing last week, local authorities said on Monday. bag.
“Forty-five bags containing human remains, both male and female, have been exhumed,” the state attorney’s office said in a statement.
Authorities were originally searching for 5 men and 2 women who had been reported missing since May 20. They were all around 30 years old. They were found in Zapopan, a large industrial center, on the outskirts of Guadalajara (Guadalajara) on the 30th. The body parts were found at the bottom of a ravine 40 meters deep.
The five people were reported missing on different dates, but investigators found that they all worked at the same call center, which was in the same area as where the remains were found.
Forensic experts have yet to ascertain the number of victims and their identities.
Preliminary investigations indicated that the call center may be involved in illegal activities. Authorities found marijuana, a piece of cloth and rags with obvious bloodstains, and documents that may have involved business transactions, local media reported.
In recent years, body bags or mass graves containing human remains have occasionally been found in different parts of Jalisco.
According to local media, in the first two months of this year alone, five mass graves were discovered in the Guadalajara area, containing the remains of 33 people.
The “Jalisco New Generation” (Jalisco New Generation) is a powerful criminal group in Mexico that operates in Jalisco state and is involved in disputes with other drug cartels.
More than 340,000 murders and some 100,000 disappearances have been reported since Mexico launched a controversial military anti-drug operation in December 2006, most of them attributable to organized crime, according to official figures. (Translator: Ji Jinling)
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