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| Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 96 -- UPDATED |
| 2011-04-27 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here Updated with new information about a third gravesite west of Durango city. The death toll in a mass grave in Durango, the capital of Durango continues to rise after 17 more bodies were found Monday, and 21 more were found Tuesday evening bringing the total to 96, according to Mexican press accounts. Late reports from Milenio suggests a third site has been found containing as many as 40 more bodies. The site is said to be somewhere between the city limits of Durango and El Salto in the Pueblo Nuevo municipality. Exhumations which were resumed Monday had been suspended due to the Easter holiday. A total of 58 individuals had been found to that time. Other reports just prior to the Easter weekend suspension said that the Durango attorney general's office had rented a tractor trailer refrigerator unit with a capacity for 300 bodies, presumably because the Durango state facilities were so overwhelmed by the large number of dead and forensic work ahead of them. The original discovery took place on April 11th when Mexican Federal agents, acting on a anonymous phoned in tip, found four corpses in the Providencia colony of Durango city. The latest discovery took place in the La Fuentes colony near a radiator shop. Authorities expect the exhumations to continue. Mexican press reports are reporting unnamed sources that speculate the victims were kidnapping victims who failed to meet their captors' requirements and were murdered, Durango has been the site of a number of high profile kidnappings totalling at least 12 victims in one day last week. To read Rantburg reports on the kidnappings in Durango city last week, click here. |
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