Mexico rights agency: 30,000 unidentified bodies in 'crisis'
Updated 7:13 pm CDT, Thursday, October 31, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Thursday there are more than 30,000 unclaimed and unidentified corpses, and an uncalculated number of skeletal remains, piling up at morgues across the country.
The governmental commission said there is "a crisis in the area of forensic identification," because morgues lack funds, personnel and equipment to properly examine bodies.
Mexico's mounting wave of homicides over the last decade has also contributed to the huge backlog of corpses.
Many of the bodies have been found in clandestine burial pits often used by criminal gangs to dispose of the bodies of victims or rivals.
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