A drone view shows a crematorium where authorities found bodies piled up in unsanitary conditions, after local funeral homes hired its services for cremation, according to the Chihuahua State Prosecutor’s Office, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 30, 2025.
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An anonymous call by authorities in the border city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico led to a chilling discovery at a crematorium: 383 bodies and the partial remains of six other people.
Chihuahua State prosecutor Cesar Jauregui said on Monday (June 30, 2025) that the people had been dead for at least three or four years.
“Who knows what the ulterior motive of these subjects was, because storing that number also makes you think they weren’t providing the service,” he said.
Authorities did not yet know why so many bodies had been stored at the crematorium, which worked with six funeral homes in the city. The bodies were discovered last Thursday. (June 26)
Mr. Jauregui said the crematorium’s owner and an employee had been arrested.
Published – July 01, 2025 09:38 am IST
