A total of 38 people have been found in ten graves in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, according to Spanish language news sources.
According to a news article published in an online editon of La Cronica (Mexicali, B.C.) news daily, over the last three weeks ten gravesites have been found by government troops in Iguala municipality at a location called Pueblo Viejo.
Eight bodies were exhumed at Rancho El Seripe. A total of 30 more were found in Pueblo Viejo.
A total of 43 students missing since last month sparked a search of the area, but Mexican news report say none of the dead found were the missing atudents. Those missing were involved in anti government protests which have been ongoing since the installation of the new government in 2012.
It is being reported that the 38 dead found were likely victims of Mexican organized crime.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com