Protest Over Odor From Rotting Corpses Shuts Mexican Government Office

Vigilante group members at the community of Petaquillas show weapons and marijuana allegedly seized during an operation to apprehend suspected offenders, in Chilpancingo, Guerrero State, Mexico, on Feb. 1, 2015. Pedro PARDO/AFP/Getty Images

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico—A protest by government workers in a drug violence-riddled southern Mexican city over rotting corpses at the municipal morgue temporarily closed a prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, officials said.

The protest by some 60 workers forced the office in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of southern Guerrero state, to shut for about three hours. The protesters complained that overcrowding at the morgue was causing unsanitary conditions.