Mexico City [Mexico], June 2: Forty-five bags containing parts of dismembered bodies were discovered on the outskirts of the Mexican metropolis of Guadalajara during the search for seven missing young people, prosecutors said late on Wednesday.
The Jalisco state prosecutor's office said that officers were investigating the disappearance of seven call-centre workers from two farms in the area in Zapopan, a suburb of Mexico's second-largest city, when they found the first bag containing body parts on Tuesday.
The human remains, belonging to both male and female victims, were in a ravine at a depth of 40 metres.
Authorities said that they would keep searching the site until all human remains were discovered, stressing it was not confirmed that the remains belonged to the missing young workers, who disappeared last week. They have so far recovered 45 bags.
Mexico has been experiencing violence of immense proportions since the so-called drug war broke out at the end of 2006.
In 2022, 31,936 people were killed in Mexico with its population of about 126 million, according to official statistics.
Much of the violence in the country comes from cartels and gangs, some of which have links to the security forces. Most crimes are never solved in Mexico. The western Mexican state of Jalisco, whose capital is Guadalajara, is considered particularly dangerous. The cradle of the powerful cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) is currently experiencing a particularly bad wave of violence.
Source: Qatar Tribune
