Some of the corpses were buried so recently that bits of skin with tattoos remained, which allowed some relatives to identify the bodies, searchers said.
Searchers have found 27 corpses in clandestine graves in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, and many of them were hacked to pieces, volunteer searchers said Wednesday.
Edith González, leader of the search group "For the Love of the Disappeared," said clandestine burial site was located relatively close to the center of Reynosa. The spot is only about 4 miles from the border. The search group said an anonymous tip led searchers to the burials at a lot near an irrigation canal late last week.
Such tips have proved a double-edged sword for search groups, which are usually made up of mothers or relatives of Mexico's over 110,000 missing people.
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