The case of 43 Mexican students missing since an attack by gang-linked police took another grim turn on Thursday with the discovery of new mass graves where suspects said some were buried.
Four new suspects took investigators to the site of the four pits, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Mexico City, but the number of bodies remains unknown, said attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam.
‘They say there are remains of students,’ Murillo Karam said, adding that some of the bodies appeared burned. The discovery has put another dent on hopes of finding the students alive almost two weeks after they were pursued by Iguala police officers accused of working in tandem with the Guerreros Unidos gang.
The pits are ‘relatively’ close to the location of another mass grave found last weekend in the southern state of Guerrero that contained 28 unidentified bodies, the attorney general said.Two hitmen confessed to executing 17 of the students and dumping them in the mass.
Authorities have said it will take at least two weeks to identify the bodies through DNA analysis. The case has outraged Mexicans, who held protests on Wednesday to demand return of the studentst.
Four new suspects took investigators to the site of the four pits, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Mexico City, but the number of bodies remains unknown, said attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam.
‘They say there are remains of students,’ Murillo Karam said, adding that some of the bodies appeared burned. The discovery has put another dent on hopes of finding the students alive almost two weeks after they were pursued by Iguala police officers accused of working in tandem with the Guerreros Unidos gang.
The pits are ‘relatively’ close to the location of another mass grave found last weekend in the southern state of Guerrero that contained 28 unidentified bodies, the attorney general said.Two hitmen confessed to executing 17 of the students and dumping them in the mass.
Authorities have said it will take at least two weeks to identify the bodies through DNA analysis. The case has outraged Mexicans, who held protests on Wednesday to demand return of the studentst.