Mexican authorities discovered 12 bodies buried in clandestine graves in Chihuahua state, highlighting the ongoing problem of missing persons and drug-related violence in Mexico.
Mexican authorities have discovered 12 bodies buried in clandestine graves in Mexico 's northern Chihuahua state. Authorities discovered 11 graves containing 12 skeletons in Ascension municipality near the U.S. border, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement. 'The discovery was made during tracking operations that took place on December 18, 19 and 20,' it said.
'The unidentified skeletons and evidence were transferred to the laboratories of the Forensic Medical Service' in the city of Ciudad Juarez for possible identification and to determine possible causes of death, it said. Drug cartels and kidnapping gangs in Mexico often use such clandestine body dumping grounds to get rid of the corpses of their victims or rivals, The Associated Press points out. That has contributed to the enormous problem of missing people in Mexico — about 120,000 at this time. The relatives of most of the missing are largely left to search by themselves and often form volunteer groups that go out into the desert seeking clandestine graves. It was unclear whether any volunteer groups helped find the graves in Ascension. Chihuahua has been hit for years by violence linked to organized crime as a route for drug trafficking and the smuggling of migrants to the United States. It has recorded 3,927 missing persons since 1952, according to official figures. Jalisco and Tamaulipas, the states hit hardest by violence, have recorded more than 13,000 missing persons each in the same period. Mexico has seen more than 450,000 people killed in drug-related violence since the government deployed the army to combat trafficking in 2006, according to official figures
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