Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

A third of the country saw highs of at least 113 degrees on Tuesday. Lakes and dams are drying up and water supplies are running out.

While the families believed their children worked at a normal call center, the office was in fact part of a scam run by the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Mexico’s most violent gang.

The devastation could soon worsen with the arrival of Tropical Depression Grace, predicted to bring strong winds, heavy rain, mudslides and flash flooding.

Rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble Monday ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party and its allies appeared poised to maintain their majority in Mexico’s lower chamber of the congress, but fell short of a two-thirds supermajority.

Gold ornaments and the bones of eagles and infants were found in an offering box. Two skulls of children were found with the first three vertebrae, suggesting they might have been decapitated. The kind of stone knives used in human sacrifices were also found.