THE lead investigator into the massacre of 72 migrants in northeast Mexico and another police officer who went missing during the probe have turned up dead, officials said overnight.
The bodies of investigator Roberto Jaime Suarez and police officer Juan Carlos Suarez were found yesterday in the west of Tamaulipas state, bordering Texas, where the massacre took place, the state attorney general’s office said.
They had disappeared just days after a wounded Ecuadoran migrant last month alerted soldiers to the biggest mass killing yet discovered in Mexico’s brutal drug violence, which has left more than 28,000 dead since 2006.
Soldiers killed three suspected drug traffickers in a gun battle at the scene of the massacre, where they detained one suspect, and officials said on Monday they had found the bodies of three more suspected perpetrators.
The Ecuadoran survivor blamed the massacre on the Zetas gang, which is fighting a vicious turf war with its former employers the Gulf cartel in the region.
Three others are believed to have survived, including a Honduran now under Mexican government protection, and two women, according to Ecuadoran officials.
Most of the 58 men and 14 women killed were migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador and Brazil seeking better lives in the United States.
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