The number of victims buried in a clandestine grave discovered in El Salto at the beginning of October has risen to 113, the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) announced in an update.
Only 32 of the bodies have been identified to date: 30 males and two females.
According to Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s undersecretary of Human Rights, the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato lead the nation in the number of clandestine grave sites uncovered during the current federal administration. Around one in five bodies exhumed in Mexico were found in three Jalisco municipalities: Tlajomulco, El Salto and Tlaquepaque.
The clandestine grave site in the community of El Mirador in Tlajomulco has the highest number of bodies exhumed in this administration – 171.
Jalisco also leads the country in the number of missing persons reported since December 2018, with 23 percent (3,567) of all cases (15,392). Second is Guanajuato with 1,235 reports (8 percent) and third Sonora with 1,222 (7 percent).