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Published April 11, 2011, 12:00 AM

Couple waits for word on relative


Felipe Valadez, 60, truck driver, together with his wife, Flor Medellin, 41, waits last week in front of a local morgue to find out if his brother in law, who has been missing since September 2010, is one of the first 59 bodies found in a mass grave Wednesday, April 6, 2011, near Matamoros, northern Mexico. Security forces following reports of abducted passengers in violent Tamaulipas state bordering Texas stumbled on a collection of pits holding a total of 59 bodies. The total had since increased to 88 as of Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Read the article: 16 more bodies found in Mexican pits; total now 88