Mexico: 39 corpses found in 20 clandestine graves

Mexican prosecutors said on Sunday that they had found the remains of at least 39 bodies in 20 clandestine graves from the states of Sonora and Jalisco.

In a tomb of a farm in Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco, were found the remains of 12 people in advanced state of decomposition, said sources from the state's Attorney General, according to the EFE news agency .

Informants said that in this tomb, discovered last Sunday, the remains of five people were found at the beginning and yesterday those of seven other people were found.

Meanwhile, in the municipality of Cajeme, in the state of Sonora, 19 graves have been discovered, with the remains of 27 people (24 men and three women), according to research sources.

This latest discovery took place last Saturday, following a search of the NGO Warriors Buscadorras de Sonora, a group of women of the family of the disappeared, in the rural Valle del Yaqui, challenged by two criminal organizations.

The women were accompanied by a team of 10 investigators and forensic pathologists.

On March 31, warriors in search found in the Yaqui Valley the remains of four men and four women.

Mexico has registered at least 2,000 clandestine graves between 2006 and 2016, with remains of 2,884 people, according to a journalistic investigation based on prosecutors' data.

According to official statistics, there are 40,000 missing bodies and 26,000 unidentified bodies in morgues.

Source: El Once

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