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Analy Nuño in Guadalajara and Nina Lakhani in Mexico City

Missing Mexican environmentalists’ families accuse mining company

Antonio Díaz Valencia and Ricardo Lagunes.
Antonio Díaz Valencia and Ricardo Lagunes. The mining company Ternium Mexico has denied any involvement in their disappearance. Composite: Supplied

Relatives of two missing Mexican environmentalists are pointing the finger at a transnational mining company which they claim is responsible for environmental destruction and violence in the rural community, and may have links to the criminals who abducted their loved ones.

Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, a renowned human rights lawyer, and Antonio Díaz Valencia, leader of the Aquila Indigenous community in the state of Michoacán, were last seen on Sunday evening after attending an anti-mining community meeting.

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