EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, have pulled three bodies from clandestine graves not far from an area near the Rio Grande where they recovered 14 bodies earlier.
Chihuahua state police on Thursday searched two homes in the Urbivilla del Centro neighborhood and one in Finca Bonita, both in southeast Juarez about a mile across the border from San Elizario, Texas.
In each case, investigators dug up skeletal remains of persons of undetermined gender about 4 feet under the backyards of the homes. The bodies were taken to a forensic facility to determine cause and time of death, the Chihuahua Attorney General said in a statement.
The searches were prompted by intelligence reports from a state police unit that searches for people in Juarez who are reported as missing.
A police investigator uses a trained dog to locate a suspected clandestine grave in the back of a home in Juarez, Mexico.
A forensic investigator digs in the backyard of a Juarez home police suspected bodies were buried.
No arrests were reported.
The neighborhoods are about a mile south of Portal del Valle, where Mexican police in September 2023 found eight bodies buried in a clandestine landfill and another six nearby last March. The area has long been a drug and migrant smuggling corridor disputed by rival drug gangs.
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