Guadalajara (Mexico) (AFP) – A group searching for missing people in Mexico reported the discovery of human remains in graves and alleged clandestine crematoriums in the state of Jalisco (west), reported one of its leaders.
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According to that report, there are 25 bags with bones and charred tissues discovered on Sunday in the town of El Salto, Jalisco, the Mexican state with the most missing people: almost 15,000 of nearly 100,000 counted by the government's National Search Commission throughout the country.
“Upon entering this farm that was semi-open, we immediately came across an artisanal oven (…). When prospecting, we began to locate bones and parts of skin, burnt human flesh with a foul aroma,” he told the news agency. AFP news Índira Navarro, from the Guerreros Buscadores collective, who explained that the structure was still smoking.
The Prosecutor's Office, responsible for verifying these complaints, has not yet ruled on the El Salto case, to which was added the discovery this Monday of five bodies – four men and one woman – on a highway between the municipalities of Encarnación and Lagos de Moreno. (Jalisco).
Civil associations – made up of relatives of the disappeared – periodically report the discovery of mass graves during the work they carry out on their own throughout the country.
In El Salto, according to Navarro, they found a second oven, a round excavation at ground level covered with bricks. In both holes there were ashes, fragments of bones and teeth, said Navarro, who described the site as a “clandestine cemetery.”
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Groups searching for missing persons assure that drug trafficking cartels and other organized crime gangs use ovens, sometimes brickyards, to incinerate their victims and leave no trace.
Navarro explained that the place was located during random work, with the accompaniment of the militarized National Guard, during which they obtained information from residents.
He added that the work was suspended so as not to alter the scene, which must now be inspected by the prosecutor's office with a court order.
The discovery in El Salto occurred after groups of searchers from Jalisco found human remains in a clandestine oven in a vacant lot in San Pedro Tlaquepaque (Jalisco) last October.
The Government reported on March 19 that there are almost 100,000 missing people in Mexico and that another 20,000 people have been found since last August.
The NGO Movement for Our Disappeared also documents 52,000 unidentified bodies that remain in morgues or mass graves in public cemeteries.
In Jalisco, with coasts on the Pacific, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel operates, one of the most violent criminal organizations in the country that maintains bloody disputes with other groups such as the Sinaloa Cartel.
AFP
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