MEXICO CITY: Prosecutors in Mexicos most violent state said they have found skeletal remains that may belong to the bodies of about 15 people near the city of Irapuato.
Relatives of missing people led them to a site where bones were scattered on the ground or in plastic bags, Guanajuato state prosecutors office said late Monday.
The search concluded over the weekend and the remains were taken to laboratories for analysis and possible identification, but the office said they represented the remains of no more than 15 people.
Relatives of the missing in Guanajuato have formed search brigades to look for the bodies of their loved ones, collecting information on clandestine burial grounds used by drug cartels to dispose of the bodies of their victims and rivals. Similar volunteer search groups have led authorities in other states to find hundreds of sets of remains in the past.
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