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Caribbean-Latin America
Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 280
2011-11-21
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Another seven unidentified skeletons were exhumed Saturday in Durango state, according to Mexican news accounts.

The bodies were discovered in in the village of Leona Vicario in San Juan del Rio municipality which is about 115 kilometers north of the capital, Durango.

The newly discovered dead brings the death toll in the several graves in and around Durango to 280, the worst mass grave in modern Mexican history.

Starting last April and lasting throughout the past early summer, Mexican Army units had been working to exhume bodies from 13 separate locations in Durango state including the cities of Durango, Santiago Papasquiario, Cuencame and Ciudad Lerdo.

The Durango Fiscalia General Estado (FGE) or attorney general's office reported early on in the investigation that many of the dead were killed as far back as four years ago. Many of the early discovered dead had been buried alive.

To date of the 280 dead found only 25 have been identified and claimed by relatives.
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