Armed men release video denouncing group searching for missing relatives at site of suspected cartel training camp

Masked and heavily armed men have circulated a video denouncing people searching for missing relatives at the site of what authorities said was a cartel training camp in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

In a video circulating Monday night, a man, flanked by others standing in formation, read a statement identifying them as members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel. He questioned the motivations of the searchers who said last week they had found hundreds of articles of clothing, dozens of shoes and charred bones at a ranch outside Guadalajara.

The Attorney General's Office, which is investigating the cartel site, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Associated Press could not independently confirm who was behind the video.