More than fifty corpses were found in clandestine mass graves in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States, the prosecutor's office in charge of the investigation said this Saturday.
A macabre discovery. Fifty-six bodies were discovered in clandestine mass graves in northern Mexico, the prosecutor's office in charge of the investigation announced this Saturday.
The bodies 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 prosecutor's office without any details on the possible identity of the victims.
Over the days, investigators found bodies, complete skeletons and scattered bones, bullet casings and clothing.
The remains were sent to forensic laboratories to determine “the causes and time of death, as well as the identity of the victims,” added the prosecution, which is committed to “providing legal certainty to the families” of the deceased people.
-In connection with multiple traffics?
Criminal groups traffic drugs, weapons and migrants in this area of Mexico. Indeed, the bodies were exhumed in a place known as “El Willy”, controlled by the criminal group La Linea, “one of the armed branches” of the Ciudad Juárez cartel on the border, according to local media .
This part of the country has been hit for years by violence linked to organized crime on a drug transfer and migrant smuggling route to the United States.
Since December 2006, the date of the launch of a controversial military anti-drug operation, Mexico has accumulated more than 450,000 violent deaths and tens of thousands of disappearances, according to official figures.
