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Mexico's Missing Girls

Two families who started their own investigations into their daughters' disappearances in the State of Mexico.

Thousands of women and girls have disappeared over the past decade in the State of Mexico. Many girls are targeted online and go willingly and nobody knows how many of the missing have been found, dead or alive. Some families are left to do the investigating themselves. For Outlook, Nina Lakhani has been to meet two families whose daughters have gone missing.

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(Picture: The mother and grandmother of missing girl Syama sit in her bedroom. Credit: Nina Lakhani)

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