383 corpses found piled up in crematorium near U.S. border

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Two radical person been arrested aft constabulary recovered 383 corpses piled up successful a backstage crematorium successful bluish Mexico's Ciudad Juarez adjacent the U.S. border, the local prosecutor's bureau said Tuesday, attributing the grisly find to negligence.

The bodies were "deposited irregularly successful the crematorium, which were not cremated," Eloy Garcia, communications coordinator of the Chihuahua authorities prosecutor's office, told AFP.

Garcia said the corpses were "stacked" successful nary evident bid successful assorted rooms of the gathering wherever the crematorium operates successful the metropolis astir 10 miles southbound of El Paso, Texas.

They were "just thrown similar that, indiscriminately, 1 connected apical of the other, connected the floor," helium said.

All the bodies had been embalmed. Instead of ashes, relatives were fixed "other material," Garcia said.

Authorities estimated that immoderate of the remains could person been determination for up to 2 years.

Garcia blamed the "carelessness and irresponsibility" of the crematorium owners, adding that each specified businesses "know what their regular cremation capableness is."

"You can't instrumentality successful much than you tin process," helium said.

State Attorney General César Jáuregui Moreno met with families acrophobic that their loved ones whitethorn beryllium among the bodies recovered from the crematorium, the prosecutor's bureau said Tuesday.

"We volition question the highest imaginable punishment for those responsible," helium said. "We volition behaviour a thorough investigation, seeking to minimize the re-victimization of families already experiencing this."

Forensic officials said that of the 383 bodies, 218 are male, 149 pistillate and 16 are presently undetermined.

Hundreds of embalmed bodies recovered astatine Mexican crematorium

Authorities did not specify whether the corpses belonged to victims of transgression violence.

Mexico, a state hard deed by organized crime, has been suffering for years from a situation successful its forensic system, saturated by the precocious fig of bodies to beryllium processed, the deficiency of unit and budgetary restrictions.

The quality of the crematorium arrested was announced conscionable 1 time aft 20 bodies, respective of them decapitated, were recovered connected a road span successful a portion of Mexico wherever factions of the Sinaloa cause cartel are warring each other.

Four headless corpses were recovered by the roadside portion 16 bodies were discovered wrong an abandoned vehicle, the Sinaloa authorities prosecutor's bureau said. Five quality heads were recovered wrong a container astatine the scene.