SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador officials said on Thursday they were excavating a clandestine cemetery containing as many as 40 bodies, most of them believed to be women, after it was discovered at the house of a former police officer.
Exhuming the bodies could take another month, authorities said. The remains of at least 24 people had been recovered so far at the house in the municipality of Chalchuapa, about 48 miles (78 kilometers) northwest of capital San Salvador.
At least 10 people are facing charges in relation to the cemetery, according to the office of the attorney general, including a former police officer, Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez, whose home is at the same site as th…
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