Sometimes the bodies can’t even be counted. At an “extermination site” in Nuevo Laredo, a Tamaulipas municipality just miles from the border, forensic experts were weighing charred remains six months after uncovering the site and still unable to estimate the number of dead,the AP reported from the site in 2022. The bodies that are recovered and remain unidentified are in the tens of thousands.
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But sometimes, cartels call in fake tips of burial grounds, ensnaring law enforcement agents who arrive to recover the bodies. Earlier in July, 14 people – including three children – were injured and four law enforcement agents and two civilians were killed in an explosive attack in Guadalajara, the capital of Jaliso, after cartel members are believed to have placed an anonymous tip to authorities about a supposed burial site there,CBS News reported.
Instead, when authorities arrived, seven roadside bombs exploded in an event that Enrique Alfaro, the governor of the state, called “sin precedentes” – without precedent – and “that manifests what these organized crime groups are capable of.”
source: people.com
