Mexico: 200 pairs of shoes found at clandestine crematorium

A woman records clothes and shoes found in Teuchitlan, Jalisco state, Mexico, on 5 March. Photograph: Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images

Two hundred pairs of shoes have been found at a clandestine crematorium on a ranch in the Mexican state of Jalisco, in a disturbing demonstration of the country’s crisis of forced disappearance related to organised crime.

Warrior Searchers of Jalisco, a collective of relatives of the disappeared, found the crematorium following an anonymous tip-off, and the authorities have since confirmed the presence of burnt remains and empty bullet casings.