Mexican judiciary announced that 11 former members of a drug cartel have each been sentenced to 50 years in prison after being convicted of killing 122 bus passengers in the northwest of the country near the United States over a decade ago. The Mexican Attorney General's office stated that the 11 men were members of the Zetas Cartel when the massacre occurred in 2010, and they were convicted of committing "aggravated murder."
In 2010, numerous complaints were reported about passengers being kidnapped, later found in mass graves in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States. According to the public prosecutor's office, the victims were "taken off the buses and were later found in several mass graves," as reported by AFP. The nationalities of the victims, who were killed on a route typically taken by migrants crossing Mexico in their attempt to reach the United States, have not been identified.
