Mother and son killed while looking for missing relatives in Mexico

A Mexican mother belonging to a group looking for missing relatives was killed along with her son in a western region full of criminal violence, authorities said Thursday.

Maria del Carmen Morales was shot on Wednesday night in the state of Jalisco, said the prosecutor’s office, added that the initial indications were that the crime was not related to its activism.

Morales, 43, Belonged to the Warrior Searchers Collective, Whate Discovery of bones, shoes and clothing In an alleged Jalisco drug cartel training camp in March it shocked Mexico. The poster is directed by Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantesfor whom the United States government has offered a $ 15 million reward for information that leads to its capture.

The spooky finding of highlighting for forced recruitment and other tactics used by criminal gangs in a country where more than 120,000 people are missing.

Morales was killed when she defended himself from her son Daniel Ramírez, 26 when she was attacked by two men on a motorcycle, said the prosecutor’s office.

Another of his children had disappeared last year.

The prosecutor said that until now there was no evidence to link Morales’s murder with his search for missing persons.

In a statement published on social networks, Guerreros Searchers requested an “immediate and exhaustive research.”

The civil society groups formed by relatives who denounce the inaction of the government risk their own lives that seek remains in unmarked graves, often in areas where the poster gunmen are active.

In addition to the discovery in the ranch, other massive tombs have been found in recent months in Mexico. In January, at least 56 bodies were discovered In unmarked massive tombs in northern Mexico, not far from the border with the United States.

TO common pit Discovered in December in a Suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people, authorities said. That same month, the Mexican authorities said they recovered a total of 31 bodies News in Chiapas, a state full of poster violence.

Groups looking for missing people Let’s say that the posters and other gangs of organized crime sometimes use ovens to incinerate their victims and leave no trace.

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