Mexico finds 17 bodies buried in backyards, patios

Volunteer searchers in northern Mexico led authorities to a series of grisly finds: 17 bodies or skeletal remains buried in the backyards and patios of houses in a low-income housing development, prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said late Sunday. The prosecutors office said the finds were made over the weekend at abandoned houses in the city of Ciudad Obregon. The state prosecutors’ office said the bodies would be subject to genetic and specialized forensics tests to identify them.