https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/mexico-now-has-a-backlog-o...Mexico now has a backlog of more than 30,000 unidentified corpses as murder rate soars
The Mormon family massacre has shined a spotlight on the Mexican murder crisis as thousands of bodies pile up in trucks and morgues.
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The senseless murders of three American mothers and six children by drug cartel members in northern Mexico has shined a spotlight on the country’s escalating homicide crisis.
The country’s murder rate has soared by more than 30 per cent, smashing national records for two years running.
In 2018, there were 33,341 murders, a 33 per cent increase over the record-breaking 2017 toll of 25,000 — at the time the highest rate since 1997 when the record began.
The crisis is so bad that authorities can no longer cope with the volume of victims. There are now an estimated 30,000 unidentified corpses languishing in morgues and refrigerated trucks across the country.
In one particularly horrifying case, a “wandering” refrigerated truck carrying corpses from an overflowing morgue in Guadalajara was forced to park on the outskirts of the city following complaints about the smell.
The truck was initially thought to have been carrying 157 bodies but after authorities provided a warehouse in which to store them, they found far more — at least 273 — crammed inside.
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