More Than 250 Human Skulls Are Found in Mass Grave in Mexico
By PAULINA VILLEGASMARCH 14, 2017
MEXICO CITY — A mass grave discovered in the Mexican state of Veracruz contained more than 250 human skulls,
most likely the victims of criminal drug cartels, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday.
Jorge Winckler said that For many years, the drug cartels disappeared people and the authorities were complacent,
The federal police and state prosecutors later discovered 125 clandestine graves over eight months across
a large area known as Colinas de Santa Fe, said Lucía Diaz, a spokeswoman for the collective.
Describing the crime-ridden state as a "giant grave," Mr. Winckler said the state authorities would match D.N.A.
Mr. Winckler did not say when or by whom the pits were discovered,
but the first graves in the area were found in August with the help of members of Colectivo Solecito, a group of women whose children are missing.
Among the remains recovered in the last six months
and already identified were the bodies of a former state prosecutor and his secretary, who were kidnapped by police officers working for a drug gang in 2013.