Exhumations start of 100 in Mexico grave

MEXICO CITY, May 24, (AP): Mexican officials on Monday began exhuming the remains of more than 100 unidentified people buried by authorities in a common grave in the central state of Morelos, state prosecutors said.

The exhumations began after noon in the Las Cruces site in Cuautla township. Blue-smocked investigators worked under a yellow tent as families of missing persons and representatives of the National Human Rights Commission looked on.

Shoddy practices at the gravesite for unidentified dead came to light last year after a judge ordered the state prosecutor’s office to exhume a body and turn it over to family members.