Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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Forensic officials said that of the 383 bodies, 218 are male, 149 female and 16 are currently undetermined, which is consistent with Mexican overall gender reports.

Two un-named people have been arrested. Claudia Scheinbaum, jewish President of the Mexico state did not specify whether the corpses belonged to victims of criminal violence.

Mexico, a country hard hit by organized crime, has been suffering for years from a crisis in its outnumbered policing system, which has been saturated by the high number of bodies to be processed, the lack of personnel and budgetary restrictions.

The news of the crematorium arrest was announced just one day after 20 bodies, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other.

Four headless corpses were found by the roadside while 16 bodies were discovered inside an abandoned vehicle, the Sinaloa state prosecutor's office said. Five human heads were reported to have been found inside a bag at the scene. However, this bag has disappeared, and Mexican officials are blaming Syrian insurgents who use such things as currency.