Mexican authorities have recovered 24 bodies from a clandestine mass grave discovered in December on the outskirts of Guadalajara, the country’s second largest city, prosecutors said on Sunday.

The search in the area in western Mexico began on 13 December 2024 on land belonging to the municipality of Zapopan and lasted a month, during which the human remains were dismembered and packed into 72 bags, the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Investigators and forensic experts used ‘drones with thermal cameras and georadar’ and dogs in the search, the same source said.
The prosecutor’s office said six people, one woman and five men, who went missing between 2021 and 2023, had been identified.
Forensic experts are continuing to identify the other 18 people, the source said.
Jalisco is the Mexican state with the highest number of missing persons, with 15,382 cases as of 31 December, according to the office of the state’s deputy attorney general for missing persons.