Families are demanding answers after authorities in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico, discovered that 383 bodies had been stored in a crematorium for months and years after the people had died. <\/p>\n
Norma Guardado Meraz was one of many locals who visited the Chihuahua Prosecutor\u2019s Office this week to get more information about its investigation into the discovery, fearing that among the bodies are those of their relatives. <\/p>\n
The discovery was made on June 26 after several municipal police officers found a hearse containing two bodies and other corpses piled up in a room in the building\u2019s courtyard. <\/p>\n
Prosecutor C\u00e9sar J\u00e1uregui said the pile of bodies had accumulated since 2020, suggesting that the Plenitud crematorium had failed to perform services it had been subcontracted for by six funeral homes. <\/p>\n
She and her family want clarity about the fate of the remains of her mother, Mar\u00eda Nieves Meraz, who died three years ago and was mourned at one of the funeral homes that had subcontracted the crematorium. <\/p>\n
Another resident, Javier Ram\u00edrez, went to the prosecutor\u2019s office Wednesday to determine if the remains he had received actually belong to his father, who died two months ago and whose wake was held at <\/em>one of the other funeral homes. <\/p>\n The office said Tuesday that of the 383 bodies found, 218 were men, 149 were women and the gender of 16 could not been identified. <\/p>\n As the case moves forward, the prosecutor\u2019s office is promising a thorough investigation and says it encourages more people to come forward and demand answers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Families are demanding answers after authorities in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico, discovered that 383 bodies had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}