Mexican authorities dug 117 corpses from a mass grave in central Mexico, state authorities said Friday, bringing toan end a 12-day operation to close the grave amid a public outcry, dpa reported. The grave in the cemetery in the town of Tetelcingo was discovered by family members of Oliver Wenceslao Navarrete, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2013. His body was brought to a morgue, but prosecutors sent it to the mass grave rather than alerting his family. Their discovery sparked an outcry, and civil groups and family members of other missing persons pressed the government of the state of Morelos to exhume the bodies, identify them, and bury them in better conditions. The bodies exhumed included those of two children and a foetus. Mexican authorities have in recent years uncovered hundreds of unmarked grave sites, with many bodies believed to be victims of a wave of violence tied to the organized crime.
