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The Honduran authorities buried this Saturday the corpses of 26 people that after several months they were not claimed in the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Public Ministry, reported an official source.
Until now, the bodies remained in Forensic Medicine chambers in Tegucigalpa and today they were buried in niches in the Humanitarian Cemetery close to the capital honduranIzza Alvarado, the spokeswoman for that unit of the Public Ministry, told reporters.
Among the dead are men and women, some of them identified, according to authorities from the Institute of Forensic Sciences.
The Forensic Medicine spokesperson pointed out that this is the second group of corpses not claimed by their relatives in Honduras that are buried so far in 2023 in niches of the Humanitarian Cemetery.
The deposit of corpses strangers in Forensic Medicine it is frequently saturated due to the violence suffered by the Central American country, with a daily average of between ten and thirteen homicides.
Last year, Honduran authorities buried the remains of at least a hundred people who were not claimed by their relatives, according to Forensic Medicine.
He Humanitarian Cemetery It is located to the east of the Honduran capital and was enabled with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Around 3,653 people died violently in Honduras in 2022, 6.3% less than the 3,897 cases in the same period in 2021, according to a report by the country’s Ministry of Security.
The violence caused by the drug trafficking and organized crime is one of the main problems facing Honduras, one of the nations in the region used for the passage of drugs arriving from South America to the United States. EFE
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