Dozens of bags with human remains found in Mexico

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — As many as 48 bags containing human remains were discovered and recovered from a clandestine grave near Guadalajara, Mexican authorities said Thursday. Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco state, where one of Mexico’s most violent and powerful drug cartels operates and where thousands of people have been reported missing. The bags with the remains were located four weeks ago by a search group on a vacant lot in Zapopan, a vast outlying municipality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, the state prosecutor’s office said. Officials said they were still trying to pin down an exact number for victims whose remains were found in the bags. They declined to give an estimate, but said they were carrying on with a search to see if more remains were around. “We need to make progress on the forensic issue so that we can tell you how many victims this number of bags represents,” Blanca Trujillo, deputy state prosecutor for missing persons, told a press conference. In the meantime, the remains in the 48 bags that were recovered would need to be analyzed, officials said. Since

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