The buried bodies of seven women and three children were found on the property of an ex-police officer in El Salvador.
The attorney general said that the man was being investigated on suspicion of sex crimes and a total of 13 murders. The 51-year-old was therefore initially arrested last Saturday on suspicion of double femicide – i.e. murder of women because of their gender.
Some of the people appeared to have been killed about two years ago, prosecutors reported on Twitter. Seven other possible graves on the property have yet to be investigated. At least 25 people are missing in the area.
