The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) raised to seven the number of missing persons traveling towards the coast of the state, to the resort of Puerto Escondido, previously estimated at six.
Today the Prosecutor’s Office received a new complaint for the disappearance of a person, which would be related to the six people previously reported missing, who were last seen in different parts of the Central Valleys region.
On Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the disappearances occurred between December 31, 2024 and January 7, 2025, according to information provided by relatives of the victims.
Despite this, local media collect complaints that would total up to 14 possible victims and that the Prosecutor’s Office received complaints for the different cases – between January 11 and 14, 2025 – from the relatives of the victims who were heading to the Puerto Escondido resort.
In a statement, the Prosecutor’s Office warned that it has deployed a criminal intelligence strategy, as well as the development of analysis and context work with the aim of analyzing the profiles of each of the seven people not located.
This “to have information that allows them to detect risks derived from their daily work, as well as the areas and environments in which they operated, information that allows the establishment of guidelines for carrying out search and location actions,” indicated the institution in a statement.
The FGEO explained that the deployment and coordinated operations in the regions of the Coast and Central Valleys, “seeks to expand the possibilities of obtaining data and information that leads to the location of people reported as missing or not located.”
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Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office increases the number of missing people who traveled to Puerto Escondido to seven
The State Investigation Agency, the Deputy Attorney General’s Office for Attention to Victims, the Search Unit for Non-Located Persons and the Regional Deputy Prosecutor’s Office of the Coast participate in the search.
In addition to the Specialized Forced Disappearance Unit, the Kidnapping Combat Unit, as well as agents from the National Guard, Secretary of Defense (Defense), Secretary of the Navy and agents from the State Police.
The head of the State Search Commission, Michel Julián, told the media that “no line is ruled out, including that of organized crime” and noted that the victims’ relatives indicated that they were last seen in different parts of the region. of Central Valleys.
This is a geographical and cultural region in the center of the state and is made up of a set of river valleys that are located between the Sierra Juárez, the Sierra Madre del Sur and the Nudo Mixteco.
Preliminary investigations suggest the disappearances could be related, although the victims were last seen in different locations.
On social networks, he realizes that not only seven people are missing, but there could be up to 14; However, the authorities have not confirmed this assumption.
With information from EFE.
