El Salvador officials said on Thursday they were excavating graves discovered at the house of a former police officer that contained as many as 40 bodies, most of them believed to be women.
The remains of at least 24 people have been recovered so far at the house in the municipality of Chalchuapa, about 48 miles (78 km) northwest of the capital, San Salvador.
Read more: El Salvador records 51 violent deaths in a single day.
“The central axis of the investigation is sexual violence,” prosecutor Graciela Sagastume told the press earlier this week.
Separately, in Mexico, a 72-year-old man was arrested this week as a suspected serial killer of women, local media reported.
(Reporting by Nelson Renteria; Writing by Cassandra Garrison; Editing by Alexandra Hudson, Grant McCool and Gerry Doyle).
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