U.N. observers arrive in Tetelcingo, Mexico

Four observers from the United Nations arrived this morning at the town of Tetelcingo, in the municipality of Cuautla, Morelos, where 116 corpses are to be exhumed by the state authorities.

The bodies were buried by the office of the then Attorney General in March 2014 to lay remains that were either unidentified or not claimed by their relatives, according to the official version of events.

Roberto Villanueva Guzmán, coordinador for the Victim Aid Program of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, explained that the presence of the observers responds to an agreement between the relatives of the victims and the regional attorney general Rafael Ávila López, signed last May 23.

"The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is worried about the situation of the Tetelcingo graves, and thus their presence this morning," expressed Villanueva Guzmán.

The international agency is expected to report on the results of the visit whithin the next few days.

The exhumation process was started a week ago and so far 53 bodies have been exhumed, and they match the bodies reportedly buried in the area by the authorities.

While the bodies are being exhumed, a special unit is receiving DNA samples from people coming from all over the country looking for their relatives and comparing it with samples taken from the exhumed remains.