Police Discover 383 Dead Bodies Near U.S. Border In Mexico

This is a terrifying discovery.

Mexican authorities discovered 383 dead bodies piled up in a crematorium in Northern Mexico near the U.S. border.

Authorities have arrested the owners of the crematorium and reported that some of the bodies were stacked up in rooms for over two years.

CBS News shared more details on the horrific finding:

Two people have been arrested after police found 383 corpses piled up in a private crematorium in northern Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez near the U.S. border, the local prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, attributing the grisly find to negligence.

The bodies were “deposited irregularly in the crematorium, which were not cremated,” Eloy Garcia, communications coordinator of the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office, told AFP.

Garcia said the corpses were “stacked” in no apparent order in various rooms of the building where the crematorium operates in the city about 10 miles south of El Paso, Texas.

They were “just thrown like that, indiscriminately, one on top of the other, on the floor,” he said.
All the bodies had been embalmed. Instead of ashes, relatives were given “other material,” Garcia said.

Garcia blamed the “carelessness and irresponsibility” of the crematorium owners, adding that all such businesses “know what their daily cremation capacity is.”
“You can’t take in more than you can process,” he said.
State Attorney General César Jáuregui Moreno met with families concerned that their loved ones may be among the bodies recovered from the crematorium, the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

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Nearly 400 human corpses, including 383 complete bodies & 6 partial remains, have been found piled high in a mysterious building in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.… pic.twitter.com/St32LOvJ5c

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Around the same time the bodies at the crematorium were discovered, in Culiacan, Mexico, 20 dead bodies were found, but unlike at the crematorium, these bodies were linked to cartel violence.

The pictures of the scene were truly graphic.

Fox News had these details to share on the discovery:

Mexican authorities said 20 dead bodies, including five decapitated corpses, were discovered in the cartel-plagued city of Culiacan on Monday.

Four decapitated corpses were found hanging from a highway bridge leading out of the city. The bodies’ heads were discovered nearby in a plastic bag, authorities said, according to the Associated Press.

That same day, 16 additional dead bodies with gunshot wounds were found stuffed into a white van on the same freeway. Along with the corpses – one of which had also been decapitated – authorities found a note seemingly from one of the cartel groups. The contents of that note were not immediately disclosed, AP reported.