The human remains found last week in an abandoned house in the state of Guanajuato (center), the most violent in Mexico, are those of 32 bodies, announced Monday, August 4.
Dismembered corpses were found in plastic bags during a search in a house in Irapuato as part of an investigation into missing people. Fifteen victims were “totally identified,” said a press release from the Guanajuato prosecutor’s office.
The 32 bodies were “in fragmented and complex conditions”, specifies the Prosecutor’s Office, and added that the process of identification of other victims is underway.
Last May, in another abandoned house in Irapuato, 17 bodies “were found in different stages of decomposition,” according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
In 2024, Guanajuato ended the year at the top of the 32 states with the number of homicides: 3,151, or 10.5% of the cases that occurred throughout the country, according to official figures. More than 3,600 people are missing.
Industrial, cultural and tourist state with its colonial factories and cities, Guanajuato is the scene of rivalry between two criminal organizations: the generation of the Jalisco Nueva cartel, recently classified by the Trump administration in a list of eight mafias in Latin America “terrorists”, and a local gang, the Santa Rosa cartel (CSRL).
Mexican morgues fall apart under the number of unidentified corpses: more than 50,000, up to 72,000 according to certain estimates published in September 2024.
Source: BFM TV
