'The dead keep coming': violence overwhelms Mexico's morgues

Ramirez closes a cold room with corpses and remains of corpses at the morgue in Chilpancingo. Photo: AFP

In a dark, windowless room with no air conditioning in southern Mexico, thousands of bones of unidentified people encapsulate the crisis of a forensic system overwhelmed by violent crime.

The morgue in Chilpancingo in Guerrero state is full of anonymous human remains – like many others in a country struggling to process a backlog of tens of thousands of bodies.