by Adry Torres at The Daily Mail
A collective of mothers searching for their missing loved ones came upon a burning mass grave this week in northwest Mexico where human bodies were dumped.
The group was canvassing a remote area in the Sonora municipality of San José de Guaymas on Wednesday afternoon when they detected a foul odor. The burned body parts were abandoned in a pit that was at least five feet deep, according to the attorney general’s office for Sonora.
Authorities and searchers attempted to put out the fire with extinguishers and chemicals before the Guaymas Fire Department could control the flames.
A man who accompanied the collective search team known as’ Madres Buscadoras de Sonora’ (Searching Mothers of Sonora) leans over a pit in a remote area of San José de Guaymas, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. Several human bodies were dumped and set on fire. The search group discovered the clandestine site Wednesday.
The Guaymas fire department assisted in putting out the fire at a clandestine grave site that was discovered Wednesday. The attorney general’s office for the state of Sonora said the start of the search had to be delayed for 48 hours due to the extreme temperatures inside the pit
A blood stained plastic bag was found strewn across the ground near the burning secret burial pit
‘(There were) many human remains burning. We think it could be several, many people,’ Patricia Flores, who founded ‘Madres Buscadoras de Sonora’ (Searching Mothers of Sonora) in 2019 after her 31-year-old son Marco Antonio Sauceda was abducted, told newspaper El Universal.
Flores, who recorded the shocking video, also spotted several burned body fragments strewn across the ground.
A bag left behind on the ground was stained with the blood of the victims.
Authorities recover human remains found Tuesday inside a secret burial site in Nogales, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, just 49 miles away from the United States border
Sonora state authorities search a clandestine burial site where one of the four bodies were found Tuesday
The shocking discovery was made a day after Madres Buscadoras de Sonora found eight graves in the desert area of the Sonora city of Nogales, just 49 miles from the United States-Mexico border.
The remains of four people, including two males, were pulled from the burial holes, the attorney general’s office said.
The secret pits, authorities maintain, are frequently used by…