Mexico police find 61 corpses in Acapulco crematorium
Mexican police have found 61 bodies in an abandoned crematorium in the southern port city of Acapulco.
A high-ranking state police official said on condition of anonymity on Friday that the corpses were found late Thursday.
The official added that the discovery followed neighbors’ complaint of a stench emanating from the crematorium in the state of Guerrero, which has been abandoned for more than a year.
Guerrero State Chief Prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez said, “We are working on identifying how many children, women and men” are among the bodies. The official did not provide any details about the cause of their death in a country where violence linked to drug cartels is one of the major causes of fatalities.
According to official data, since December 2012, an average 1,000 people have died every month in drug-cartel violence in Mexico.
The Mexican army is still fighting drug gangs across large parts of the country. The government says it has a database of 26,000 missing people in connection with drug-related violence.
Godinez added, “We can’t say for now that there is an indication that organized crime participated in this, but we can’t rule it out.”
Authorities have not determined whether the corpses were dumped by a gang or left by the crematorium’s operators after the facility closed down.
Forensic experts and investigators are trying to find out how long the bodies have been kept there.
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