In the Mexican state of Jalisco, officials discovered the truck during a routine inspection on Sept. 14. They discovered that state officials have been using it as a morgue since their morgues ran out of space.
Tlaquepaque Mayor María Elena Limón wanted to close down the warehouse due to the smell but her request was denied.
The truck is now located close to the state attorney general’s office.
Jalisco State Attorney General Roberto López Lara said on Twitter that he wanted to open an investigation into the incident and criticized the officials for their “severe inaction, insensitivity, and negligence to take action by various authorities.”
Who Is Reponsible
Aristóteles Sandoval, the governor of Jalisco, fired the morgue chief for “grave omissions” and violating “protocol” used to handle the deceased.The fired morgue chief, Luis Octavio Cotero, said in an interview that he was being blamed for everything and feared for his life.
Although the morgue chief had been fired, it is still unknown who gave the order for the corpses to be moved around.
The other mystery is why the deceased remain unclaimed, since officials have records of their fingerprints, DNA samples, and photographs of their face, according to the Jalisco state attorney general.