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A STATE GOVERNMENT in Mexico has fired a prosecutor over a spectacle in which a fetid-smelling tractor-trailer carrying 273 bodies was driven around aimlessly for lack of room in the morgue.
“I am not willing to tolerate this kind of mistake, which shocks and horrifies public opinion,” said the governor of western Jalisco state, Aristoteles Sandoval, as he fired prosecutor Raul Sanchez.
The state’s chief coroner was fired earlier in the week over the sad drama in the state capital, Guadalajara.
The bodies were in the refrigerated truck because the morgue in Mexico’s second-largest city was full.
Officials originally put the number of bodies at 157 but yesterday raised it to 273.
The truck was parked for two weeks at a warehouse in a downtrodden neighbourhood on the city outskirts until residents complained of the stench and the flies it attracted.
The authorities then moved the truck to an empty lot in another poor neighborhood far from the city center, until residents there protested on Saturday.
Officials then moved it to a prosecution storage facility in the city center, where it remains parked for now.
News outlets broadcast footage yesterday of the open trailer of the truck, with piles of bodies in black bags and a man in white boots stepping on the bags.
Officials have said the bodies were of victims of violent crime, so under Mexican law they cannot be cremated.
Authorities said they were looking for a longer-term solution.
The coroner who was fired over this case, Luis Octavio Cotero, said the state government was working on a site to bury 800 bodies outside Guadalajara.
The number of murder victims in Mexico has exploded in recent years.
Since the government deployed the army to fight the country’s powerful drug cartels in 2006, Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence that has resulted in more than 200,000 murders.
Last year, the country registered a record 28,702 homicides.
Mass graves are regularly discovered containing dozens or even hundreds of unidentified bodies. Nearly 4,000 such corpses have been found since 2007, according to the National Human Rights Commission.
Some of the highest-profile violence has been in Jalisco, home to the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Other states hit hard by cartel violence have also struggled with overflowing morgues in recent years, including Veracruz in the east, Guerrero in the south and Chihuahua in the north.
I’m glad it was a private sort of Funeral especially with the Westboro Baptist Church intending to picket his funeral, idiots.
God there not are they ….
That the church led by Fred Phelps?!
That prick pickets the funerals of US troops coming back from Iraq with placards that read "GOD IS GLAD YOUR SON IS DEAD!"
Sick Bastards.
The irony being that Phelp’s wife made the announcement that they would picket the funeral via Twitter for iPhone.
Steve, safe journey home to iheaven…..
That cover of the New Yorker is so powerful and so true!
Powerful maybe, but true? So you’ve met St. Peter and he was using an ipad. Why weren’t you allowed in?
Will miss u steve RIP. Apple shouls change the name of iphone 4s to 4SJ!!!
Loved the art
Thats why it was called the 4S. 4 Steve.
Actually I’m just wondering what sort of sick people read this site. Someone posts wishing steve well and he gets 10 thumbs down. WTF is wrong with some people?
Can’t imagine the funeral was too flash
Graham….. They are on android!!!
iSad
Graham.I always give a thumbs down to people with sloppy spelling.
In your case no capital S in Steve.
The perfectionist Steve Jobs would have approved.
Pete you’re an idiot. So if someone makes a point you agree with, you’ll thumbs down it for incorrect spelling? Genius. By the way, you should have had a space between a full stop and the next word. Idiot.
That is so anal god I hope yr not a teacher wud hate mi kidz to be in yr class
… See what I did there :p
He wouldn’t have approved of your punctuation however.
Peter. There should be a space after a full stop
iDidnt even know the guy.
Can I take credit i.e. a few million, for naming Apples next iPhone the iPhone Steve?
I think they did that with iPhone 4s
Pete you really should find something more productive to do with your time rather than correct the worlds spelling, like invent something better than the iPhone.
Will he be buried in an i-coffin?
There’s only so many jokes you can make….
R.I.P.
The death of Apple co founder and former CEO Steve Jobs.Marks the passing of an extraordinary inventor.he was hailed as a creative genius.on a par with,Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison.he had such a Creative mind,and a great Inspreation to the world he may be gone,but he’ll never be forgotten. R.I.P
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