Mexico City — Mexican authorities have found 12 our bodies buried in clandestine graves in Mexico’s northern Chihuahua state, officers mentioned Thursday.
Authorities found 11 graves containing 12 skeletons in Ascension municipality close to the US border, the state prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
“The discovery was made throughout monitoring operations that occurred on December 18, 19 and 20,” it mentioned.
“The unidentified skeletons and proof had been transferred to the laboratories of the Forensic Medical Service” to town of Ciudad Juarez for potential identification and to find out potential causes of dying , it mentioned.
Drug cartels and kidnapping gangs in Mexico usually use such clandestine physique dumping grounds to do away with the corpses of their victims or rivals. The grisly follow has contributed to the big downside of lacking folks in Mexico, who now quantity about 120,000.
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The family of most of these lacking persons are largely left to search for their family members by themselves, they usually incessantly kind volunteer search teams that exit into the desert in search of clandestine graves. It wasn’t recognized if any of these volunteer teams had helped authorities in finding the graves in Ascencion.
Chihuahua has been hit for years by violence linked to organized crime as a route for drug trafficking and the smuggling of migrants to the United States.
It has recorded 3,927 lacking individuals since 1952, based on official figures. Jalisco and Tamaulipas, the states hit hardest by violence, have recorded greater than 13,000 lacking individuals every in the identical interval.
Mexico has seen greater than 450,000 folks killed in drug-related violence for the reason that authorities deployed the military to fight trafficking in 2006, based on official figures.
