Skeletal stays found in Mexican border state of Chihuhua taken to lab for potential identification, officers say.
Authorities in Mexico have uncovered 12 our bodies in clandestine graves within the northern border state of Chihuahua.
Authorities found the skeletal stays in 11 graves in Ascension, about 180km (110 miles) west of Ciudad Juarez, close to the border with the US, the state prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.
The investigators began exploring the desolate website on December 18, and in subsequent days, they expanded the search space.
They finally discovered 11 separate shallow pits into which a dozen our bodies had been dumped.
The stays had been taken to state forensic laboratories for potential identification and to find out, if potential, the causes of demise.
Chihuahua has been hit for years by violence linked to organised crime as a route for drug trafficking and the smuggling of migrants to the US.
The state has recorded 3,927 lacking individuals since 1952, in response to official figures.
Throughout Mexico, about 120,000 persons are considered missing amid years of violence and instability.
The relations of most of these lacking persons are largely left to search for their family members by themselves, they usually steadily kind volunteer search teams that go out into the desert on the lookout for clandestine graves.
It was not identified if any of these volunteer teams had helped authorities in finding the graves in Ascencion.