The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror | Mexico | The Guardian

The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror

The long read: How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?

via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/01/death-truck-mexico-morgue-crisis-guadalajara

To their horror, they were right. Concealed behind the polar bear’s anodyne smile lay 273 decomposing corpses. Still, what they did not suspect was that it wasn’t the drug cartels who had brought this grisly cargo to their doorstep. It was the state government.