Authorities in the Mexican border city of Cuidad Juarez said Wednesday they plan to exhume the remains of thousands of people to get DNA samples that may help identify them and help bring order to past police practices.
A team of 30 people, including forensic anthropologists and odontologists, are already exhuming remains from cemeteries in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, said Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.
The team will exhume unidentified bodies that were buried in common graves between 1991 and 2005, Medrano said. They will extract DNA samples and build a database. The remains will then be tagged …
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