ACAPULCO, Mexico — Sixty-one rotting bodies have been found at the crematorium of an abandoned funeral home near Acapulco after neighbors complained to authorities about a foul smell coming from the building, officials said Friday.
The bodies, most of them male, were discovered Thursday evening at the facility, which had been shuttered for about one year, according to a government official who was not authorized to be quoted by name.
Guerrero state prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez confirmed the number of bodies in comments to local media.
Many of the bodies were covered with sheets and had been heavily doused with quick-lime powder, apparently to reduce the odor of rotting flesh. Some of the bodies appear to have been there for as long as a year, but others may have been placed at the site more recently, the official said.