Fifty-six corpses were found in common pits in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States, the prosecution in charge of the survey said on Saturday. The corpses were exhumed in the state of Chihuahua between Tuesday and Friday, with the support of the army, according to the press release from the regional prosecution without any details on the possible identity of the victims. Criminal groups engage in drug, weapons and migrants in this part of Mexico.
Over the days the investigators found bodies, complete skeletons and scattered bones, ball sockets and clothes. The remains were sent to medical-legal laboratories to determine “The causes and the time of death, as well as the identity of the victims”added the prosecution. The prosecution undertakes to “Bring legal security to the families of the victims”. Bodies were exhumed in a place known as «El Willy»controlled by the La Linea criminal group, “One of the armed branches” of the poster of City Juárez to the border, according to the newspaper the Day.
Chihuahua has been struck for years by violence linked to crime organized on a drug transfer and traffic transfer route to the United States. On December 26, at least 12 bodies were found in several tombs about two hours from the border town of Ciudad Juárez. The State has a total of 3,927 people who disappeared until December 2024, far from the other harshest states affected by this phenomenon such as Jalisco (West) and Tamaulipas (North), which have more than 13,000 cases, according to official figures.
“In May 2022, Mexico reached the tragic figure of more than 100,000 people officially recognized” missing “according to the UN. Since December 2006, the date of the launch of a controversial anti -drug military operation, Mexico has accumulated more than 450,000 violent deaths and tens of thousands of disappearances, according to official figures.
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