Post date: Apr 28, 2012 9:40:11 PM
The remains were found at a ranch in the municipality of Tacotalpa. The children ranged in ages from 7 to 10. Three of the children were siblings, while the fourth was reportedly a neighbour in the town of Tapijulapa.
Elio Gutierrez, the uncle of the three dead siblings, said that the family became concerned when the children didn't return home and unsuccessfully spent much of the day searching for them.
Four children are found dead in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.
TAPIJULAPA, TABASCO, MEXICO (APRIL 27, 2012) (REUTERS) - Four missing children were found dead after having been suffocated and buried at a ranch in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, Mexican authorities said on Friday (April 27).
"In the afternoon, when we saw that they didn't return home, we began looking everywhere with their friends to see where they were. We were looking all afternoon until night time, and about 1 or 2 in the morning we returned and we weren't able to find them. Nobody knew anything and nobody was able to give us any information," he said.
The Tabasco Attorney General's Office said in a statement that the children had been suffocated with brown tape.
Tabasco Attorney General Gregorio Romero Tequextle denied earlier rumours that the organs of the children had been removed.
"The cadavers were brought here to the city of Villahermosa. To be clear, the cadavers are complete. Let me repeat. The cadavers are complete. In other words, no organs were removed. The cause of death has been determined by the medical examiner to be suffocation," he said.