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Tijuana Forensic Cemetery Project to Solve Unidentified Remains Problems
Recently, construction work on a forensic cemetery in Tijuana for the burial of unidentified people and their remains got underway. The project is slated to be completed in seven months.
As per Cesar Gonzalez Vaca, the director of Baja California Forensic Services, the cemetery would initially be able to accommodate 2,000 remains.
Unclaimed bodies will be taken to the Forensic Cemetery when the memorial park is completed. They will be placed in large chambers and niches rather than in regular graves, he added.
According to Gonzalez Vaca, in the case that tissue samples were required for further investigations, they would be kept in a database run by the office of the attorney general. Bodies would be delivered there already embalmed and registered using a genetic profile.
Seven years had elapsed since the cemetery’s conception. Several private groups that search for and identify missing persons all over the state had significantly supported its construction.
The head of the Baja California Missing Persons Movement, Jose Fernando Ortigoza, expressed a great deal of satisfaction. He pointed out that they had been battling for this for a long time.
Approximately forty acres of land are being provided for the site to build the forensic cemetery by the city of Tijuana. It is said that the forensic cemetery will be constructed in four phases. It will eventually have the capacity to hold 12,000 bodies. |
