The state prosecutor acknowledged that there are still five graves pending analysis due to the lack of staff.
Experts trying to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered earlier this month in a remote area known as La Primavera outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second city.
Joaquín Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, will be standing trial in New York under high security. And a total of 27 people have so far been dismissed as potential jurors, out of nearly 60 who have been questioned.
Vigilante groups have fought with the drug gangs in Mexico's Guerrero state to protect their families and businesses.
The human remains were found in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the Veracruz city, Mexican prosecutors say.
Mexico turned over Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to the United States, where the indictment against him carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison.
Gunfire broke out at the state attorney general's office in Cancun, which the state governor says was a reaction by gangsters to his crackdown on organised crime.
Focus of crackdown will now turn to more than 10,000 lower-ranking police officers after the dismissal of 313 senior officers, who were found involved in organised crime.
US authorities assure Mexico that drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo' Guzman will not face the death penalty when he's extracted.
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