Mexico Metropolis — Mexican authorities have found 12 our bodies buried in clandestine graves in Mexico’s northern Chihuahua state, officers stated Thursday.
Authorities found 11 graves containing 12 skeletons in Ascension municipality close to the U.S. border, the state prosecutor’s workplace stated in a press release.
“The invention was made throughout monitoring operations that came about on December 18, 19 and 20,” it stated.
“The unidentified skeletons and proof have been transferred to the laboratories of the Forensic Medical Service” within the metropolis of Ciudad Juarez for potential identification and to find out potential causes of demise, it stated.
Drug cartels and kidnapping gangs in Mexico typically use such clandestine physique dumping grounds to do away with the corpses of their victims or rivals, The Related Press factors out. That has contributed to the large drawback of lacking individuals in Mexico — about 120,000 at the moment.
The family of a lot of the lacking are largely left to look by themselves and sometimes kind volunteer teams that exit into the desert looking for clandestine graves. It was unclear whether or not any volunteer teams helped discover the graves in Ascension.
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Chihuahua has been hit for years by violence linked to organized crime as a route for drug trafficking and the smuggling of migrants to america.
It has recorded 3,927 lacking individuals since 1952, in keeping with 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 individuals killed in drug-related violence for the reason that authorities deployed the military to fight trafficking in 2006, in keeping with official figures.
