Mexico identifies remains as belonging to missing federal agents


  • World
  • Monday, 19 Feb 2018

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican attorney general's office said on Sunday that human remains found last week belong to two federal agents from its organised crime unit who were last seen in an online video earlier this month that appeared to show their kidnapping.

The law enforcement agents, Octavio Martinez and Alfonso Hernandez, disappeared on Feb. 5 after attending a family event in the Pacific state of Nayarit, one of the regions hit hardest by an increase in gang-related killings.

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