MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican researchers have found a total of 116 bodies in pits near the border with United States, more than previously reported 28, Attorney General Marisela Morales said Tuesday.
It is believed that the victims were abducted by coaches travelling to the border of the United States.
Mr. Morales said that a total of 17 suspects had been detained in connection with the killings in the North of the State of Tamaulipas.
Interior Secretary Francisco Mora Blake is committed to increase the number of troops in the region where the killings took place and not to leave the area until the killers and drug gang members had been taken.
The graves were recently discovered in the township of San Fernando.
Police say witnesses have told them that armed men had been taking people, especially the young, off the coast of the bus passengers travelling through the area of San Fernando, end of March. The authorities say that kidnappings carried out by the gang of drug Zetas, the same group accused in the massacres of 72 migrants last August in the same area.
The motive for the abduction is uncertain, although prosecutors have suggested that the gang may have been force recruiting people.
San Fernando is 90 km south of Brownsville, Tex, on a stretch of country road near the coast of the Gulf in a zone patrolled regularly by the Mexican army.
The Zetas and the rival Gulf Cartel are fighting in Tamaulipas on the lucrative drug transit routes to the United States.
The authorities are working to identify the body. One is the Guatemala, said the Government of that country. The victim was identified as Feliciano Tagual Ovalle, 44, the Guatemalan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late Monday. The statement did not say if the man was a migrant or a resident of the Mexico. Mexican authorities said only one was a man of the Centre of the Mexico.
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