Mexico City - Officials have pulled more than two dozen bodies from a mass grave in northern Mexico, a local official said on Thursday.
Federal police digging in the outskirts of Durango, capital of a Mexican state of the same name, uncovered severely decomposed bodies and human remains, local media reported.
By early Thursday, 26 bodies had been recovered and digging was set to continue, a government official from Durango said.
Mexico has been engaged in a bloody war against drug traffickers for more than four years. Many of the 37 000 people killed have been found buried in ditches.
Earlier this month, a series of mass graves containing 145 people was found in the border state of Tamaulipas. - Reuters