Local police said Thursday that at least 45 bags with human body parts were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco. While looking for eight people who were reported missing last week.
In a statement, the office of the state prosecutor said, “45 bags containing the remains of both men and women have been taken out.” The gruesome find was made on Tuesday at the bottom of a 40-meter (120-foot) ravine in the municipality of Zapopan. Which is a suburb of Guadalajara, a big industrial hub.
Two women and six men, all around 30 years old, have been missing since May 20. The police have started looking for them. Each report of a missing person was made on a different day. But detectives found that all of them worked at the same call centre.
The human body parts were found in the same place as the call centre. Experts in forensics have not yet found out how many people were hurt or who they were.
Initial questions suggested that the call centre may have been involved in illegal activities. Local media claimed that authorities had found marijuana. Along with a cloth and a cleaning rag with what looked like blood stains. With documents about possible commercial activities.
But the families of the missing people said that the police were trying to make the victims look like thieves.
Jalisco’s Hidden Horror: Bags and Graves Unearth Disturbing Truth of Violence
Jalisco Continues to Witness Disturbing Cases of Bodies Found in Bags or Unmarked Graves. In recent years, these incidents include the discovery of 11 bodies in approximately 70 bags in Tonala in 2021. Meanwhile, 29 bodies in 119 bags were found in an unpopulated area of Zapopan in 2019. Tragic events unfolded in March 2018 when three film students went missing. Their bodies were later found dissolved in acid, sparking widespread protests in Jalisco.
Another distressing case from 2018 involved three missing Italians, allegedly handed over to the Jalisco New Generation cartel by the police, based on claims of selling faulty equipment. Despite extensive search efforts by state and federal authorities, the Italians have yet to be located.
Local news reports indicate that in the first two months of this year alone, 33 bodies were found in five homemade graves in the Guadalajara area.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel, known as one of Mexico’s most powerful organized crime groups, remains engaged in conflicts with other drug cartels.
Since the initiation of a controversial military anti-drug offensive in December 2006, Mexico has experienced a staggering toll of more than 340,000 killings and approximately 100,000 disappearances, primarily attributed to criminal organizations.
