[DAWN] GUADALAJARA: The bodies of at least 50 people have been unearthed from a mass grave at a farm outside Mexico’s western city of Guadalajara, local authorities said.
The grim site was discovered just over three weeks ago in Jalisco ‐ a state hard-hit by violence linked to organised crime. The local prosecutor’s office said on Saturday 13 of the dead ‐ 12 men and a woman ‐ have been identified and the remains given to their families.
The process of identifying more of the victims and how they died would continue, it added.
A mass grave with 34 bodies was discovered in a suburb of Guadalajara on Sept 3, while another was found nearby in May with the remains of 30 people.
Nearly 2,500 murders were reported between January and November in Jalisco ‐ where the powerful Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel is based ‐ state authorities have said.
More than 3,000 unmarked graves with at least 5,000 bodies have been found in Mexico since the government deployed the military to fight the country’s powerful narco mobs in 2006.
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