Mexicans seek mass grave victims at border morgue

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) – Bereft Mexican families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country’s northern border in search of victims of the worst mass killings in Mexico’s drug war.

Ricardo Martinez, 63, is one of many grief-stricken parents who have come to the city of Matamoros on the border with Texas for news of their missing children since soldiers began digging up dozens of bodies from mass graves in nearby San Fernando.

The last time Martinez spoke to his son Elvis was when the 33-year-old called from a pay phone two weeks ago to say he was getting onto a