A search team stumbled across more than 2,000 human bones belonging to more than 150 people in northwestern Mexico last week.
Members of the State Brigade for the Search of Disappeared Persons were combing a dumpsite near a luxury private residential complex in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on August 24 when they discovered several bags that contained hand bones.
Searchers also located several foot bones which were among the body fragments that were left strewn over the ground.
Forensic experts reported that some of the bone fragments belonged to children.
The foot and hand bone fragments belonged to more than 150 people including children are pictured.
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According to Mexican outlet El Universal, several bags filled with bones were placed along a path not far from an area accessible by car.
Some of the bags were damaged as a result of being exposed to the sun and water, and were also ripped by animals searching through them.
Last weekend, the group discovered the bodies of three missing people, including two women. It seemed they had been shot in the head.
A separate search party located two bodies buried in a clandestine pit at a beach in the Pacific resort town of Mazatlán.
The brigade was created in 2016 and is composed of family members of missing victims who have volunteered to search for 57,861 people who have disappeared over the last two decades in Mexico.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
