There is no room for more deaths: 25 unidentified bodies were buried in Guerrero in morgues

The violence in Guerrero has made the forensic medicine department of the entity insufficient – in March they were counted 115 homicides– so, the staff of the Attorney General's Office dropped 25 unidentified bodies, in the drawers of the ministerial pantheon of Acapulco.

These corpses were stored at the Semefo of Acapulco, where, as in Chilpancingo and Iguala, there is a saturation of 700 unidentified bodies, Many of them date from 2012.

According to the figures of the Office of the Prosecutor, at the Pantheon of Ministers have been deposited at least 230 bodies that already have all the anthropological studies and forensic medicine.

Many corpses found in Semefos have been found clandestine tombs, located in the municipalities of the entity.

Due to the saturation of the bodies, the Secretary of State for Health, Carlos de la Peña Pintos, announced the construction of a new forensic unit at Acapulco. Last month, the prosecutor's office lodged a complaint about the strong smelly odors emitted by the scientific police unit located on Vicente Guerrero Street in the Progreso neighborhood.

Violence in the The southwest of the country rebounded in 2006when the war against drug cartels began.

The delay in the practice of forensic genetic examinations, anthropology, fingerprinting and the wave of violence in Guerrero, this has contributed to more bodies being crammed into the Semefos.

According to Semefo's general manager, Ben Yehuda Martínez, "Medico-legal services do not have the capacity or the staff enough to perform genetic testing, which forces them to seek the help of another party to solve the problem.".

Because the bodies, which accumulate mortuaries, exceed the number of quota, the smells that they emit can reach the areas surrounding the units, jeopardizing the health of residents and employees.

Federal authorities have stated that To avoid overbooking, they intend to seek badistance for genetic testing at Expert Services in other states of the country. with those who meet periodically to follow protocols for the treatment of corpses.