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| Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 224 |
| 2011-06-01 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here See see the last Rantburg report on the Durango mass murders click here The death toll in Durango, Durango rose to 224 as three more bodies were exhumed from two gravesites, according to Mexican news sources. The death toll in the mass graves of Durango already surpasses the death toll in San Fernando municipality in Tamaulipas of 183, at one time the worst mass murder in modern Mexican history. Reports say the Durango state attorney general's office (FGE) resumed excavation at the sixth site on calle Valentin Trujillo in the Valle del Guadiana colony over the weekend pulling two bodies from the site Sunday. The previous week, another body was exhumed from the seventh site in Jardines de Durango colony near the Zona Centro of Durango city. Mexican and Durango state officials have yet to clarify differences between the mass graves in San Fernando, the count of which had been accrued over nine months; whereas the death toll in Durango city reaches back as far as four years, and is likely to be from normal organized crime activity such as kidnapping and extortion. The San Fernando murders from all accounts appear to be a campaign of terror perpetrated by a local Los Zetas commander, as well as an impressment campaign for replacement shooters. In related news, four unidentified men were found strangled to death in two separate locations in Durango state.
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