48 bags containing human remains were found inside a hidden tomb in Cartlhold, Mexico
As many as 48 bags containing human remains were found and found in a grave near Guadalajara, Mexican authorities said.
Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco State, where one of Mexico’s most violent and powerful Carcels operates and where thousands of people were reported.
The bags containing the bodies were placed four weeks ago by a search party in a vacant lot in Zapopan, the main municipality in the Guadalajara region, the State Prosecutor’s Office said.
Authorities say they are still trying to determine the exact number of victims found in the bags. They declined to give an estimate, but said they were continuing to search to see if there was more left.
“We need to improve the forensic problem to tell you how many victims this number of bags represents,” Blanca Trujillo, deputy prosecutor of the State of missing persons, told the Press Conference.
Meanwhile, the bodies in the 48 bags that were found will have to be analyzed, officials said.
Since the powerful discovery, the management has been working to recover the remains with the support of the members of Guerreros buscadores collective.
In presenting an official report on the search efforts, Trujillo said his office is supported by the National Commission on Human Search. Because of the size of the country, the search requires the use of heavy equipment, he said.
Hundreds of Mass Graves have been discovered
The discovery of the grave site adds to similar cases in Jalisco, the state hardest hit by the crisis of missing persons affecting Mexico, where more than 127,000 victims have died across the country.
Most of the executions are taking place within the framework of the growing violence that has rocked Mexico since December 2006, when the Federal Government launched an anti-narcotics operation.
One of the Many great cemeteries in Mexico It was reported in 2017 that more than 250 skulls were found in what appears to be a large Cartel Mass Ground burial on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.
Recently, as recently as June, forensic experts The remains of 34 people were found Burial near the residence in Zapopan. In January, at least 56 bodies they were found in mass graves in northern Mexico, not far from the US border.
According to official data, Jalisco has more than 15,900 cases of missing people, which experts say is the work of the Jalisco new generation cartel (CJNG).
Last February, the United States designated the CJNG as a “foreign terrorist organization,” after recognizing it as one of the largest organized crime groups that traffic, the synthetic opiod that has caused the death of thousands of Americans.
CJNG has been accused of using non-professional advertisements to attract new members as well torturing and killing people Who are you against? In March, a group of people looking for missing relatives were found mixed bones, shoes and clothes On the ground suspected of training for the Cartel.
The Cartel is led by Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El mencho.” Washington has offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his capture.
