Now it has shut down the state’s overcrowded morgues as workers walked off the job, saying the stench of hundreds of decomposing bodies had become unbearable. Lots of nausea,” state employee Laura Reyna Benjamín said of the smell to Televisa. In the state capital Chilpancingo, 200 kilometres south of Mexico City, at least 600 bodies are being stored in a space designed to take 200, according to the Reforma newspaper. Between eight and 10 bodies have been arriving daily at morgues in the state, according to Reforma, while the state has registered 1,919 homicides so far this year – already at least 100 more than last year. At least 50 criminal groups now operate in the state, according to Guerrero’s attorney general, Javier Olea.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 18:22 UTC