Published December 27,2024
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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 during tracking operations that took place on December 18, 19 and 20,” it mentioned.
“The unidentified skeletons and evidence were transferred to the laboratories of the Forensic Medical Service” to the town of Ciudad Juarez, it mentioned.
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, in accordance 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 because the authorities deployed the military to fight trafficking in 2006, in accordance with official figures.
Source: www.anews.com.tr