Missing women found dead in violent central Mexico region

Suspected criminals have kidnapped and murdered six women reported missing in a violent region of central Mexico, authorities said on Friday, clarifying that so far they had only identified the bodies of five who were cremated.

Carlos Zamarripa, Guanajuato state prosecutor, where the events occurred, reported that after several operations they managed to find and later genetically identify five of the victims and that they worked with other skeletal remains that were found almost entirely burned.

“Five of the six genetic profiles have been established,” Zamarripa explained, after clarifying that the six young women were transferred on the day of the kidnapping, by a criminal group, to the Juventino Rosas municipality “where they were ultimately deprived of their lives.”

The women were reported missing on March 7 in Celaya, a city convulsed by drug trafficking crime that in recent years has become one of the most violent in the country.

The official added that six men, including one of Honduran origin, were arrested as alleged perpetrators of the crime but did not specify the motive for the murder.

Mexico is considered one of the countries with the most violence against women. In January, 68 were murdered in various regions of the country, most with bladed weapons and other elements, 17 of them with firearms.

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