By IANS/EFE,
Mexico City : A total of 5,397 people have been reported “lost or missing” in Mexico since 2006 and nearly 9,000 have died and not been identified, said the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH.
The figures come from the National Missing and Unidentified Dead Persons Information System, or SINPEF, which includes figures provided by relatives, the CNDH said.
Of the 5,397 missing people, 3,457 are men, 1,885 are women and the gender of 55 is not known, said the CNDH, Mexico’s equivalent of an ombudsman’s office.
The commission is working at the national level to determine why these people went missing and their whereabouts.
Information provided by judicial officials in Mexico’s 31 states as well as reports from coroners is being used in the search, the CNDH said.
Investigators, moreover, are examining information about 8,898 people who died and have not been identified.
The causes of death in these cases ranged from traffic accidents to illnesses and violence.
The SINPEF has included information about kidnappings since 2009, the CNDH said.
Information about missing migrants is now being added to the SINPEF to assist in locating them, the commission said.