By EFE
Feb 13, 2024, 12:28 PM EST
Four members of a family reported missing in the Mexican state of Guerrero were found dead and with signs of violence in an indigenous region where, a few weeks ago, a group of 20 children was armed and integrated into the Community Police to keep watch while the adults searched for the missing.
The bodies were found in black bags on the Chilapa-Tlapa highway, at the point known as Las Antenas, where indigenous authorities have pointed out the criminal group. The Squirrels of the criminal violence that has devastated the region in recent years.
The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) reported that it opened an investigation for the crime of qualified homicide of Roberto, Gaudencio and José, as well as Cecilia, who is being investigated under the femicide protocol.
The family, made up of the married couple and their two children, She was reported missing since last January 19 in the community of Zacatepec, municipality of Chilapa, where they had gone to graze their livestock.
According to the FGE, the family was searched daily by the Prosecutor’s Office specialized in forced disappearance and search for missing persons, with the participation of federal and state authorities.
The disappearance of the family caused dissatisfaction among the residents of that border area between the mountain and central regions of Guerrero, where on January 24, members of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities-Founding Peoples (CRAC-PF) presented a group of 15 armed boys and 5 girlsin the community of Ayahualtempa, municipality of José Joaquín de Herrera.
After that event, the FGE initiated an investigation against those responsible for the crime of corruption of minors.
The violence that has been recorded in recent days in the central area of Guerrero is due to the struggle of criminal groups for control of the city of Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero, which has caused the paralysis of public transportation and economic activities and schoolchildren in the city.
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