Prosecutors in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have confirmed the discovery of many clothing items and bone fragments by a group of people searching for relatives at a previously known cartel training site.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said the attorney general’s office would take on the case of a ranch that a local search group said functioned as a cartel-led site of mass murder.

A group of citizens found shoes, clothes and bones at a ranch in the west Mexican state of Jalisco. The site is thought to have been used by the Jalisco New Generation cartel. View on euronews

The remote ranch outside Mexico's second-largest city, Jalisco, was allegedly being used as a training base for cartel recruits.