Police found 381 corpses stacked in a private crematorium in northern Mexico Ciudad Juarez, the local prosecutor’s office, attributing the macabre discovery to negligence on Sunday.
“Preliminaryly, we have 381 bodies that have been laid irregularly in the crematorium, which have not been cremated,” Eloy Garcia, communications coordinator of the Chihuahua state prosecutor, told AFP.
Garcia said the corpses were “stacked” without apparent order in various rooms of the building where the crematorium works.
They were “just thrown like that, without discrimination, on the other, on the ground,” he said.
All bodies had been embalmed.
Instead, relatives received “other materials,” said Garcia.
The authorities have estimated that some of the remains may have been there for up to two years.
Garcia blamed “the negligence and irresponsibility” of crematorium owners, adding that all these companies “know what their daily cremation capacity”.
“You can’t take more than you can treat,” he said.
One of the administrators of the crematorium had already turned into prosecutors.
The authorities did not specify whether the corpses belonged to the victims of criminal violence.
Mexico, a country harshly affected by organized crime, has been suffering for years from a crisis in its forensic system, saturated by the high number of organizations to be treated, the lack of staff and the budgetary restrictions.
