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Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 108
For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here. To see the last Rantburg report on the Durango city mass graves click here.A new gravesite was uncovered Tuesday by a Mexican Army unit in a third location in Durango, Durango Tuesday raising the death count to 108, according to Mexican press accounts. The new bodies consist of skeletons unearth in two sites, one near the Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico Agropecuario Numero 4 (CBTA 4) agricultural college south of Durango city, in the Vicente Suarez colony and the other in the Hidalgo colony near the Torreon-Durango freeway. The Durango state attorney's general office (EFG) said today that several locations of graves in and around Durango city are being investigated. Another Mexican Army unit has been sent to the area of one of the original gravesites in La Providencial colony, this time on calle Hacienda Coyotes, and have been excavating the area, but as of Monday 2000 hrs reported nothing found. In at least two previous reports, a third gravesite was said to be in a location west of Durango containing as many as 40 more bodies, but nothing has become of those reports since they emerged. Reports said the putative sites were between the city limits of Durango and El Salto in the Pueblo Nuevo municipality. No mention has been made of the western site in the latest reports. Posted by: badanov 2011-05-04 |
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