Mexico authorities discover 113 bodies – including 30 that have been identified – and additional human remains in secret mass grave
- Jalisco State Attorney General Gerardo Solís announced 113 bodies were discovered inside a mass grave
- Investigators also dug out human remains from the grave site in the municipality of El Salto
- Solis said forensic workers have been able to identify 30 of the bodies
- The attorney general said 897 bodies have been found in graves throughout the state of Jalisco since 2006
- Overall, 6,900 bodies have been recovered from 4,092 clandestine graves in Mexico dating back to 2006
- As many as 29,789 people have been reported missing since December 2018 when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador entered office
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have recovered 113 bodies and additional human remains from a clandestine grave that was discovered in October.
State Attorney General Gerardo Solís announced Sunday night that forensic workers were able to identify 30 of the victims.
The bodies were found inside a pit at a private property in El Salto, outside the city of Guadalajara.
Authorities have yet to identify the owners of the property located in the El Salto neighborhood of Los Sabinos.
The state is home to Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of Mexico’s most violent and powerful. More bodies have been found in secret graves there than in any other state in recent years.
A forensic worker enters the area where they continue searching for bodies in El Salto, a city in the western the Mexican state of Jalisco. At least 113 bodies have been recovered since October, including 30 which have been identified
According to Mexico’s Interior Ministry, from 2006 through September 30 of this year, 897 bodies had been recovered from secret graves in Jalisco, 605 of those during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who took office in December 2018.
The burial ground in El Salto, southeast of Guadalajara, was found in October.
In late October, at least 59 bodies were recovered from a grave site in the neighboring state of Guanajuato.
Mexico has struggled with a staggering number of disappeared people.
The federal government reported in October that more than 75,000 people have disappeared since 2006. Last year had the highest total, with more than 8,300 missing people.
Since 2006, 4,092 secret graves have been found with some 6,900 bodies across all of Mexico.