{"id":41282,"date":"2015-02-08T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41282"},"modified":"2015-02-08T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:56:12","slug":"61-bodies-discovered-at-abandoned-crematorium-in-southern-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/08\/61-bodies-discovered-at-abandoned-crematorium-in-southern-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"61 bodies discovered at abandoned crematorium in southern Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MEXICO CITY — Police have uncovered bodies of 61 people, including children, at an abandoned crematorium in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco in southern Guerrero state, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

Police found “perfectly embalmed bodies” of men, women and children “ready for cremation” at a crematorium called Cremaciones Del Pacifico, the State Prosecutor’s Office (FGE) said in a press release.<\/p>\n

“An anonymous tip” led police to the site late Thursday, the FGE said.<\/p>\n

State Prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez said authorities were trying to determine how to classify the crime, according to the daily El Universal.<\/p>\n

“We have a clear violation of sanitary laws … possibly fraud, because the crematorium has been abandoned. However, we couldn’t say for certain at the moment,” he told the daily by phone.<\/p>\n

The official said authorities didn’t know the whereabouts of the owner of the business.<\/p>\n

The FGE, meanwhile, said the president of the Guerrero State Association of Funeral Homes was giving testimony.<\/p>\n

The agency was looking to consult “the files of all the people sent to the crematorium from 2013 to the present,” the FGE said.<\/p>\n

The bodies, covered in lime and white sheets, appeared to have languished at the site for about a year and were rotting, media reported.<\/p>\n

The discovery comes amid ongoing protests sparked by the disappearance and probable massacre in late September of 43 students from the town of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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