'The dead keep coming': violence overwhelms Mexico's morgues
The morgue in Chilpancingo in Guerrero state is full of anonymous human remains -- like many others in a country struggling to process a backlog of tens of thousands of bodies.
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Workers take samples from a human skeleton for DNA studies at the Acapulco Forensic Medical Service in Acapulco, Guerrero, on September 6, 2022. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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In a dark, windowless room with no air conditioning in southern Mexico, thousands of bones of unidentified people encapsulate the crisis of a forensic system overwhelmed by violent crime.
The morgue
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