GUADALAJARA, Mexico: A group of relatives searching for the estimated 100,000 missing in Mexico say they have discovered about two dozen bags containing remains in a secret cemetery.
the Guerreros Buscadores collective said the bones and other charred remains were discovered Sunday in a field in El Salto, in the western state of Jalisco.
Indira Navarro, a member of the group, said they discovered a smoking pit oven and noticed a foul smell.
They found bones, skin and burnt human flesh as they started exploring. “We’re talking about a clandestine cemetery.”
The state prosecutor’s office was expected to inspect the site and there was no immediate comment from him.
According to Collectives searching for missing persons, the drug trafficking cartels and other organized crime gangs use brick and other ovens to incinerate their victims and leave no trace.
Most of the missing persons in Mexico have vanished since the authorities launched a major offensive against the cartels back in 2006.
Most of the people disappeared from Jalisco region, the scene of turf wars between rival drug gangs.
In addition, nearly 450,000 people have been killed across the nation since 2006.
Mexico’s forensic system is overburdened, and tens of thousands of unidentified bodies lie unclaimed in morgues or mass graves.
