At least 59 bodies were found on a ranch in northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States, authorities said Wednesday, warning that the grim death toll could rise. The State of Tamaulipas
the prosecutor's office said 11 people were arrested and five abductees were released in the same operation on Wednesday.
Police and military personnel learned March 25 that several buses had disappeared in the region, leading to their investigation that uncovered a grim find: eight mass graves in the village of La Joya agriculture in the city of San Fernando, the prosecutor's office said.
"Through our work is in progress, we are trying to determine whether the remains are those of persons who have disappeared into the bus," the prosecutor's statement said.
Authorities said they feared the death toll could rise as the remains were counted in three of the eight mass graves. A military patrol located the mass grave, the source added.
The macabre discovery was in the same town of San Fernando, where 72 migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil have been killed in August 2010 for refusing to work for dealers drugs.
Meanwhile thousands of outraged citizens took to the streets of 38 cities in Mexico Wednesday, venting anger over the widespread violence linked to the country's trade in illicit drugs.
The protest marches were organized after the murder of a son of the well-known author with four long and two close friends on March 28.
Javier Sicilia, a poet and columnist for the daily La Jornada and Proceso weekly - two major publications in the country - has called for demonstrations after the assassination of his son Juan Francisco, 24, near Cuernavaca, 90 km (55 miles) south of Mexico City.
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