Valeria Landeros, a young woman who disappeared along with her friends Irving, Natalio, Alexia and Luis Ángel on February 12, was found dead, her relatives said.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Zacatecas confirmed the location of the body in a home in the state capital, after a search warrant.
The agency explained that during the evening of February 17 and the early hours of Friday, a court order was executed in response to an anonymous report on suspicious persons. At the scene, two lifeless bodies (a man and a woman) were found inside a home.
“Among them was the body of Valeria, a woman who was deprived of her liberty along with four other young people on February 12,” he said.
The victim’s body has already been handed over to his relatives and in respect of his rights to privacy and privacy, the agency said that no further details about the circumstances of the finding will be revealed.
According to state authorities, the five young men from the municipality of Francisco R. Murguía were deprived of their liberty as they left a nightclub in Zacatecas.
However, until Sunday, February 13, they found the vehicle in which the young people were traveling, which was abandoned on state highway number 181 in the municipality of Genaro Codina, and with four bodies inside.
On Thursday, the Prosecutor’s Office of Zacatecas reported the arrest of two alleged perpetrators of the case, who were captured after a search carried out by ministerial, military and National Guard elements in the community of La Escondida, where about 50 indications were found, according to prosecutor José Francisco Murillo Ruiseco.
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