Grief grows as bodies of kidnapped workers of Canadian mining company identified in Mexico (www.cbc.ca)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 09 Feb 14:33
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Jaime Castañeda said he identified the body of his 43-year-old geologist brother on Sunday by viewing photographs presented to him by officials at the federal attorney general’s local headquarters in the coastal Mexican city of Mazatlán, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.

José Manuel Castañeda Hernández was working for Vancouver-based mining company Vizsla Silver Corp. when he was kidnapped on Jan. 23, along with nine other employees, from Concordia, a municipality that sits about 50 kilometres east of Mazatlán.

“In truth, this has been very painful to be here, in a place where we don’t want to be,” said Jaime Castañeda, in a telephone interview with CBC News.

The identities of two other kidnapped Vizsla Silver Corp. workers, from the state of Zacatecas, were also confirmed by a family member and a federal politician on Sunday.

All three men were found dead late last week by federal authorities near a rural village called El Verde, about 15 kilometres north of Concordia.

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