Heartbroken relatives protest Mexico's missing on Mother's Day


Families of disappeared people take part in a protest demanding truth and justice for victims on Mother's Day, in Mexico City, Mexico May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Toya Sarno Jordan

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Karla Rios held up a banner with pictures of her sister and niece at the Mexican capital's monument to mothers on Tuesday - just two among thousands of people in Mexico who have disappeared in recent years without trace, leaving anguished relatives without answers.

Rios said her two family members were last seen in 2017, in the northern city of Torreon.

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