More bodies found in mass graves

MATAMOROS (AP):Investigators have uncovered 13 more bodies in mass graves in the violent northern state of Tamaulipas, where 59 dead were exhumed earlier this week, officials said yesterday.

Families and authorities from across Mexico contacted the morgue in search of those who have vanished in the country's drug war.

Seventy-two bodies have now been discovered since authorities began chasing reports in late March that gunmen had kidnapped people off passenger buses headed toward the United States border.

Nine of the bodies were discovered in one newly found grave and four in another on Thursday near the city of San Fernando, state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said Friday. The total now matches the number of migrants who died in a massacre near that town last August.

Canseco said investigators are searching for yet more graves in the area.