Americas Families get remains of El Salvador 'House of Horrors' victims
October 7, 2021
4:41 PM CDT
Last Updated 7 hours ago
By Nelson Renteria and Jose Cabezas
2 minute read
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The skeletons of 12 people in El Salvador, found inside a clandestine grave site at the home of a former police officer, were returned to relatives on Thursday, the latest development in a gruesome case that has shocked the Central American country.
The remains of the victims, including two boys and a girl, were handed over to eight families in a private ceremony inside the country's forensic institute of legal medicine in capital San Salvador. A Reuters witness said a caravan of vehicles then carried the remains to different locations.
Graciela Sagastume, the coordinating prosecutor for femicide cases, said the remains of potentially 30 people, mostly women, were retrieved from one of 11 graves inside what local media have dubbed the "house of horrors" in Chalchuapa, a small town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Salvador.
"The investigation is progressing," Sagastume said at a news conference. "[There are] around 30 bodies that could be recovered, but it is an approximation."
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former policeman Hugo Osorio, whose face was the last thing 30 people saw.....