Mexicans hope uncovered mass grave sheds light on missing relatives

FILE PHOTO: A view of a ranch that is part of the crime scene where a mass grave was found in the western state of Jalisco, in Teuchitlan, Mexico, March 10, 2025. Jalisco Attorney General Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The families of many Mexicans who have been missing for years are looking for answers in the discovery of piles of clothes, shoes and skeletal remains at a ranch in western Mexico that may have been a base to burn bodies and bury the remains.

Civilian activists searching for missing loved ones discovered the mass grave last week in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, along with ovens possibly used to cremate bodies.