Mexico will launch a new tool later this month to help record information on the tens of thousands of people who have gone missing, the country's federal prosecutor's office (FGR) said on Thursday.
The registry is set to gather information from a number of databases covering mass and clandestine graves, arrests, torture crimes, criminal records, fingerprints, and genetics, the FGR said in Mexico's official gazette.
Last year, the authorities' list of officially disappeared people surpassed 100,000, and the number is now estimated at more than 112,000. Numbers rose in the aftermath of former President Felipe Calderon's war on the country's powerful drug cartels.
The National Forensic Data Bank, together with the National Register of Unidentified and Unclaimed Deceased Persons, is set to launch operations for the database on May 29.
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