Number of missing grows

Mexico City: The number of people officially listed as disappeared in Mexico has risen to more than 100,000, government data showed yesterday, as family groups called on authorities to do more to find victims of violence linked to organised crime.

The Interior Ministry’s national registry of missing people dates back to 1964. Over the past two years, it has risen from about 73,000 people to more than 100,000, most of them men.

Human rights groups and families of the missing called on the government to urgently carry out more effective searches and investigations.