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Mexico: Remains of missing call center workers identified

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The remains of several missing young call center workers have been identified in Mexico. Last week, authorities discovered 45 bags containing parts of dismembered bodies.

Mexican authorities said on Tuesday that human remains found in sacks in a ravine in the western state of Jalisco last week belong to eight call center workers who were reported missing, as suspected.

Two women and six men, all aged around 30 years, had been reported missing since around May 20.

Their remains were found last week in 45 bags at the bottom of a 40-meter (120-foot) ravine in the municipality of Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, a large industrial hub.

Forensic evidence "confirms that [the remains] correspond to the young people who... had been reported missing," the Jalisco state government said in a statement Tuesday. Authorities did not indicate how the victims may have died.

Victims worked at illegal call center

The young people worked in a call center in the area in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, which investigators say was probably involved in telephone scams.

Police were initially looking for two women and five men, but later another employee was reported missing.

The missing person reports for each one of the employees had been made separately on different days, but investigators found that they all worked at the same call center.     

Relatives of the missing workers have criticized authorities, saying they had been to slow to find their loved ones and to investigate the call center.