Thats ok when they come here they all turn into law abiding farm workers or something. Anyway thats what the left tells us.
Morgue workers lifted a man's dismembered body that was dumped on the street of a poor Acapulco neighborhood in broad daylight, then picked up his severed leg and a bag containing his head.
They placed the body parts in the back of a van and drove toward the Mexican Pacific resort's only coroner's office, a place overcrowded with scores of unclaimed corpses.
Inside the morgue's cold chambers, bodies lay in pairs side by side on shelves meant to hold just one -- a grim symbol of the drug cartel-related killings swamping the authorities in Mexico's murder capital.
Officials granted AFP journalists last week a rare visit to the morgue, where a worker opened some refrigerator doors: Most bodies were inside grey body bags, but bare feet stuck out on a shelf. One red bag was marked "fetus." A $#@!roach scurried at the bottom of a fridge.
In all, there are 174 bodies in the five chambers, which have a total capacity for 95. Three have languished there since 2012.
Flies buzzed around the three autopsy tables and the stench of death hung in the warm air half an hour after another decapitated body was examined.
The morgue is "saturated because of the issue of violence and the bodies are not claimed," said Carlos de la Pena, head of Guerrero state's health department, which oversees the region's three overcrowded morgues.
- Daily deaths - Ten doctors work at the morgue in a once-glamorous city where 902 people were murdered in 2015 and 461 more in the first half of this year, according to official figures.
With a population of 810,000, that's a rate of 111 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2015, ranking Acapulco among the most violent cities in the world outside war zones.
Most bodies that go through the morgue are claimed.
But the fridges contain 53 murder victims and the bones of 16 others found in clandestine graves or remote parts of the city. The others are natural deaths, accident victims and remains from a crematorium that closed last year.
"There are relatives who know the bodies are here but they don't claim them. We don't know why," said Carlos Estrada, the morgue's coordinator.
Estrada, 61, said the morgue handled two to three bodies, mostly accidents, per day 20 years ago. Now it's three to five, mostly murders.
"It's shocking because many times, we work on a body that's unknown," he said. "But it's a job that has to be done."
Officials are waiting for investigators to finish a backlog of paperwork to begin burying the unclaimed corpses in two months.
The bodies pile up despite the deployment of thousands of soldiers and police on the streets and beaches.
At least 10 murders were reported during a five-day visit by AFP journalists last week.
http://www.globalpost.com/article/67...orgues-fridges
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