Mass grave found outside Mexico City

Originally published on August 23, 2013

Police in Mexico are investigating whether the discovery of at least seven bodies exhumed from a mass grave outside Mexico City on August 22 are those of a group young people who were abducted from a bar in the capital three months ago.

The federal Attorney General's Office said police received information about a possible illegal weapons cache at a property outside Mexico City known locally as Rancho La Negra. On Wednesday police there discovered a shallow grave containing at least seven partially decomposed bodies buried under lime and sand.

Police set up a one-mile perimeter around the gravesite as family members of some of the missing gathered and wept. Forensic police will attempt to identify the dead using DNA tests.

Some fear the bodies could be those of the 12 people aged 16 to 32 last seen at the Heaven bar in Mexico City on May 26. A witness who escaped said the bar manager order the music to be shut off as the venue was about to be raided by police. A number of seemingly unarmed men then led victims into waiting cars.

Five people have been arrested in connection with the daylight bar abduction. Among them, the bar owner, a security guard and a driver.

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