A Deadly Bomb Ambush of Police in Mexico Has Endangered Mothers Who Search for the Missing

A Deadly Bomb Ambush of Police in Mexico Has Endangered Mothers Who Search for the Missing
A police officer allows in members of the group Madres Buscadoras de Jalisco who found several sets of human remains after receiving an anonymous tip in Tlajomulco, Jalisco state, Mexico, on June 14, 2023. Refugio Ruiz/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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MEXICO CITY—A drug cartel bomb attack that allegedly used a fake report of a mass grave to lure police into a deadly trap has had devastating collateral damage: It has led some authorities to abandon the volunteers who search for Mexico’s 110,000 missing people.

Most of the searchers are distraught mothers looking for the bodies of the thousands of victims of kidnapping gangs and drug cartels, who dump their bodies in clandestine graves.