Mexico Finds 17 Bodies Buried in Backyards, Patios

Mexico Finds 17 Bodies Buried in Backyards, Patios
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MEXICO CITY—Volunteer searchers in northern Mexico led authorities to a series of grisly finds: 17 bodies or skeletal remains buried in the backyards and patios of houses in a low-income housing development, prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said late Sunday.

They said the bodies had been stacked in four clandestine burial pits, and said searches would continue Monday at other homes.