Police have found 381 bodies accumulated in a private crematorium in Mexico City in Northern Mexico Juárez, said the local prosecutor’s office on Sunday, attributing the spooky to find negligence.
“Preliminary, we have 381 bodies that were deposited irregularly in the crematorium, which were not cremated,” communications coordinator of the Office of the Prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua told the AFP of Eloy Garcia.
Garcia said the bodies were “stacked” without apparent order in several rooms of the building where the crematorium operates.
They were “launched, indiscriminately, one on top of the other, on the floor,” he said.
All bodies had been embalmed.
Instead of ashes, relatives received “another material,” Garcia said.
The authorities estimated that some of the remains could have been there for up to two years.
Garcia blamed the “carelessness and irresponsibility” of crematorium owners, adding that all these companies “know what their daily cremation capacity is.”
“You can’t take more than you can process,” he said.
One of the Crematory administrators had already been given to prosecutors.
The authorities did not specify whether the bodies belonged to the victims of criminal violence.
Mexico, a hard country for organized crime, has been suffering for years of a crisis in its forensic system, saturated by the large number of bodies that will be processed, the lack of personnel and budgetary restrictions.
