Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico official fired over odyssey of truck with nearly 300 bodies

Mexico official fired over odyssey of truck with nearly 300 bodies

© AFP | The truck was parked for two weeks at a warehouse in a downtrodden neighborhood on the city outskirts until residents complained of the stench and the flies it attracted GUADALAJARA (MEXICO) (AFP) -A state government in Mexico has fired a prosecutor over a spectacle in which a fetid-smelling tractor trailer carrying 273 bodies was driven around aimlessly for lack of room in the morgue."I am not willing to tolerate this kind of mistake, which shocks and horrifies public opinion," said the governor of western Jalisco state, Aristoteles Sandoval, as he fired . . .

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