Truck full of bodies draws search for missing relatives

Dozens of people from across Mexico who are searching for missing relatives this week journeyed to the city of Guadalajara, where a scandal has erupted over a truck full of unidentified bodies that overflowed local morgues. A wave of violence linked to powerful drug cartels has sent the number of missing persons in the country soaring to more than 36,000, and families of the “disappeared” often search fruitlessly for them for months or years.

Guadalajara, the country’s second-largest city, has been hit particularly hard by the violence as a home base to the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel. It emerged over the weekend that the city’s morgues are so full, authorities decided to rent a refrigerated trailer to hold the bodies of 278 murder victims.