Police discover 60 bodies at crematorium abandoned a year ago (Photos)

This is the grim discovery police made when 60 bodies were discovered in an abandoned crematorium.

Children are among the bodies of the victims in a scandal that has rocked Mexico.

The morgue closed a year ago but the rotting corpses were only found on Thursday when neighbours complained about the smell coming from the Cremations of the Pacific in Acapulco.

The owner of the building is now being hunted by police in a city plagued by drug gang violence.

The bodies of men, women and children were found ‘perfectly embalmed’ in the crematorium, officials said.

Forensic workers and Mexican army soldiers stand next to a pile of bodies found at the crematorium of an abandoned funeral home near Acapulco, Mexico, early Friday Feb. 6, 2015. Sixty-one decomposed bodies, most of them male, were discovered Thursday evening at the facility, which had been shuttered for about one year, according to a government official. The state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, has been shaken by drug-related violence, including the notorious disappearance of 43 college students who allegedly were rounded up by corrupt police on Sept. 26 and handed over to a drug gang. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

The horrific scene was only discovered because neighbours complained about the smell

A Mexican army soldier takes photos of a room full of bodies covered with sheets at the crematorium of an abandoned funeral home near Acapulco, Mexico, early Friday Feb. 6, 2015. Sixty-one rotting bodies, most of them male, were discovered Thursday evening at the facility, which had been shuttered for about one year, according to a government official. The state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, has been shaken by drug-related violence, including the notorious disappearance of 43 college students who allegedly were rounded up by corrupt police on Sept. 26 and handed over to a drug gang. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

The owner of the morgue is now being hunted by police

Guerrero state chief prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez said authorities had requested assistance from federal agencies and Interpol to find the owner, Guillermo Estua Zadai.

‘It could be a possible fraud by the owner of the building against the people who thought the remains of their relatives would be cremated,’ he later told Radio Formula, adding that officials are investigating whether people were given the wrong ashes.

The bodies were covered in white sheets that were brown from what appeared to be fluid from the decomposing corpses.

Lime was scattered on the bodies and around the crematorium in an apparent bid to mask the stench, but neighbours said they began to detect a nauseating smell two days ago.