Chihuahua state police have found the remains of more than 50 bodies at a clandestine mass grave site in a drug cartel conflict zone in a forest region in northwestern Chihuahua, authorities said.
The victims found in the mass graves could be people abducted during “a phenomenon of disappearances” taking place in the Nuevo Casas Grandes region a few years ago, Chihuahua Public Safety Secretary Gilberto Loya said at a news conference on Monday, Jan. 27.
Crime-scene investigators have been digging up human remains in various stages of decomposition in a rural mountain community named El Willy, located in Ejido Ignacio Zaragoza, about 40 miles southwest of the town of Casas Grandes.
The first remains were found on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Ten more graves were located the following day. Investigators kept finding burial sites on Thursday, Jan. 23, and Friday, Jan. 24, the attorney general’s office said.
A total of 56 bodies and remains had been exhumed from 38 hidden graves as of Saturday, Jan. 25, the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said. Fieldwork continues by investigators backed by state police and guarded by the Mexican Army and National Guard.
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