Mexico: far fewer people disappeared than feared

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico’s drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal and state governments are working to weed out people who have been located. He noted that many of those included on the original list of 26,121 released earlier this year had left home for personal reasons or emigrated.