DURANGO, Mexico, April 22 (UPI) -- Mexican authorities said they found 26 decomposed bodies in a mass grave at Durango in the northern state of Durango.
Officials told CNN the bodies were discovered in a lot apparently belonging to an auto body shop in a residential area of the city, and that none of the victims have been identified.
Earlier media reports said four other bodies were found last week but CNN said it was unable to confirm the reports.
The latest discovery, on Wednesday, came in the same week that police in Tamaulipas, a Mexican state that shares a border with the United States, confirmed the discovery of 116 bodies in multiple mass graves. Most of those bodies were found in San Fernando, about 90 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.
There were reports of passengers being forcibly removed from buses and taken away by heavily armed men.
Authorities found another 72 bodies in San Fernando in August. The victims were found to be migrants en route to the United States.
Sixteen San Fernando police officers were arrested last week for allegedly protecting those responsible for the graves discovered so far, CNN said.
