Forty-five bags containing human body parts with characteristics matching seven missing call centre staff have been discovered in a ravine in a suburb of Guadalajara, according to the state prosecutor’s office in Jalisco.
The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office investigating the deaths said it has preliminary information that the body parts-
“match the physical characteristics of some of the young people missing employees of the call centre.”
Seven call centre employees were reported missing between May 20 and 22 in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Western Mexico. Luis Joaquín, a Jalisco prosecutor, said they found the human remains inside bags thrown on a lot with a very steep slope.
Forensic experts have yet to determine the number of victims and their identities.
The Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences is working with the families of those missing to determine the identification of the human remains.
The country has been troubled by an epidemic of disappearances with more than 100,000 Mexicans and migrants still missing. In March four Americans were kidnapped in Mexico which resulted in the deaths of two of them. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador however argued that Mexico is a safer country than the United States.
Kidnapping and human trafficking are also common in sections of Mexico. Particularly near borders, and Mexico’s total murder rate is among the highest in the world.
cc: CNN
