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| As many as 500 feared dead in drug massacre in Coahuila |
| 2014-02-09 |
| The background of the massacre, the worst in modern Mexican history can be found here. The remains of at least 500 people have been found in just 10 days in which an operation started searching for missing people of at least 11 municipalities of northern Coahuila. The Assistant Attorney General for The Investigation and Search of Missing Persons in Coahuila (SubprocuradurÃa para la Investigación y Búsqueda de Personas no Localizadas de Coahuila), Juan José Yañez Arreola, reported that the remains of around 500 people were found in northern Coahuila. "The majority of the remains are nearly whole bone units, some of them were found burnt because someone had tried to disintegrate them by incineration", reported Yañez Arreola to the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón. Among the remains, skulls, bones, and charred barrels were found. The barrels were used to dissolve the bodies, of which only fragments were found. Yañez Arreola stated that the remains will be analyzed by forensics experts and that the DNA results of the bones will take four months and later be compared to those with missing persons cases. |
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