State prosecutors announced Monday night to Tuesday that researchers found 17 corpses in an abandoned home in Wanahuato, the state of Mexico, which is more affected by any other wave of violence that continues to scan the country, with more than 3,000 or more than 3,000 men.

The macabre discovery was made on Friday and on Saturday in Irapuato, a city in Wanahuato, residents of which are often victims of organized crime violence.

On May 23, sixteen corpses were found “in different stages of decay,” the local prosecutor’s office explained, stating that it was 11 men, 2 women and three persons whose sex has not yet been verified because their corpses were in advanced.

The next day, another seventeenth – corpse was found, and knives, mats, scourge and shovels were also recovered.

“The bodies recovered were transferred for analyzes and identification to forensic laboratories,” according to the prosecutor’s office.

Mexican cemeteries are full of corpses that have not been recognized so far: they are over 50,000 – even 72,000 can be, according to some estimates in September 2024.

The prosecutor’s office informed that so far, the identity of five people, four men and a woman who had been said to have disappeared has been ascertained.

In 2024, more homicides were committed in the state of Guanahuato than in any of the 32 Mexican states: 3,151, or 10.5% of the total number in the country, according to official data.

The state counts 1,260 victims of murders since the beginning of the year. There have also been 3,658 disappearances there.

On May 19th, the armed attack claimed the lives of seven people, including minors, in the municipality of San Felipe.

In early March, a group of armed people murdered seven people in the Municipality of El Grande.

A state with industry, a rich cultural heritage and plenty of tourism, with many colonial cities being magnets for visitors, Wannahuato has been turning in recent years into a battlefield of two gangs of organized crime, which clash, among other things. This is the new generation of the new generation of Halisko (KNGX), recently registered on the black list of foreign “terrorist” organizations by US President Donald Trump, along with seven other Latin America mafia; and local gang.

Wannahuato is one of the few remaining strong strongholds of the National Action Party (PAN), a faction of the liberal Conservative Right, opponent of the ruling National Renaissance Movement (Morena, Nationalist Left).