Family buries Mexican teenager who has reignited anger over gender violence

Relatives and friends attend the funeral service of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old law student who went missing on April 9 amid a spate of disappearances of women in Nuevo Leon's capital Monterrey, in Galeana, Mexico April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

GALEANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Standing atop a windswept hill in northern Mexico, surrounded by dozens of fellow mourners, Mario Escobar prepared to bury his teenage daughter, Debanhi, one of the latest victims of the country's crisis of violence against women.

"We are destroyed inside," he said. "We had so much faith that we would find her alive, but that's not what happened."