MEXICO CITY — Mexican investigators found two more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, increasing the tally of corpses found there to 14, officials said Monday.
Federal agents began digging in the yard of the house in the La Cuesta neighborhood in February, finding nine dismembered bodies.
Five more, including two announced Monday, were discovered in the past week, the federal Attorney General’s Office said in a news release.
Five of the 14 bodies had been buried about five years ago, the statement said. Agents and cadaver-sniffing dogs continued to dig at the site Monday night as investigators sought to identify the corpses.
The Attorney General’s Office did not say how the victims died or who is thought to have buried their remains, but it did note that 3,740 pounds of marijuana were found in the house.
