Family buries Mexican teenager who has reignited anger over gender violence By Reuters

By Laura Gottesdiener

GALEANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Standing atop a windswept hill in northern Mexico, surrounded by dozens of fellow mourners, Mario Escobar ready to bury his teenage daughter, Debanhi, one of many newest victims of the nation’s disaster of violence in opposition to girls.

“We’re destroyed inside,” he stated. “We had a lot religion that we’d discover her alive, however that is not what occurred.”

The practically two-week seek for the 18-year-old regulation scholar who disappeared on April 9 close to the northern industrial metropolis of Monterrey has sparked new anguish and outrage over gender violence.

In Mexico, a median of 10 girls a day are killed, and tens of 1000’s extra are lacking. [L2N2WK2N3]

A couple of hundred members of the family, buddies, and neighbors joined the funeral in Galeana, Nuevo Leon, the hometown of Debanhi’s mom the place the household usually spent weekends and holidays.

Singing hymns as they walked beneath the new solar, the mourners carried white balloons and hand-written indicators demanding justice for Debanhi.

{The teenager}’s physique was discovered on Thursday night time submerged in a cistern contained in the grounds of a motel close to the place she was final seen alive.

The state lawyer common stated on Friday that the reason for loss of life was a contusion to the cranium and that every one strains of investigation have been open. On the funeral, Mario Escobar stated his daughter’s corpse had been “overwhelmed and strangled.”

Her loss of life got here amid a spate of disappearances of girls within the state of Nuevo Leon. For the reason that starting of this yr, at the least 26 girls and women have disappeared, and 6 extra – together with Debanhi – have been discovered lifeless after being reported lacking.