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Cemetery Investigated in El Salvador
San Salvador – The Salvadoran Attorney
General’s Office is investigating the find
of what appears to be a clandestine cemetery
containing street-gang victims in the
central town of Colon.
A spokesperson for the AG’s office told Efe
on Tuesday that the site is being
investigated, but refrained from providing
further details, saying it could harm the
investigation process.
A report published this Tuesday in the daily
El Diario de Hoy said that investigators are
working to dig up 10 bodies, which
apparently belonged to victims of street
gangs or “maras.”
According to the newspaper, the victims,
among whom might be the youth who went
missing in December 2008 in the nearby small
town of Las Moras, were shot or stabbed to
death.
The National Civil Police told the paper
about the discovery of bones at the place
where the presumed cemetery is being
investigated in an area near Colon.
Police said that the assailants could have
taken advantage of the place being remote
and surrounded by a coffee plantation to
bury the bodies.
The report said that in this area the Mara
Salvatrucha gang operates and that
investigators do not rule out as a possible
cause of the murders a dispute between
gangs. EFE |
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