LatinNews Daily Report - 03 December 2012

SECURITY| Another mass grave found. On 2 December authorities in the north-eastern state of Coahuila revealed that they had found a clandestine mass grave, containing seven bodies, near the city of Torreón. According to a statement by the local attorney general’s office, the authorities received an anonymous tip and soldiers were sent in to an abandoned ranch in the municipality of Obispado, where they found seven dismembered male bodies, between the ages of 22 and 30 buried, near the ranch’s main house. The statement added that the authorities are working to identify the bodies. This is the fourth mass grave found in Mexico in the past two weeks, following two similar discoveries in Guerrero and one in Chihuahua.

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