Mexico missing students search turns up 129 bodies and 60 secret graves [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico missing students search turns up 129 bodies and 60 secret graves
Published 27/07/2015 | 01:52

The search for 43 missing college students in Mexico has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months.


None of the remains has been connected to the youths who disappeared after a clash with police in the city of Iguala last September, and authorities do not believe any will be.

Prosecutors say the students were turned over to a drug gang that killed them and incinerated their bodies in a case that has put attention on the huge number of people who have gone missing in Guerrero and other Mexican states where drug violence is widespread.

The number of bodies and graves found from October to May could possibly be higher than in its report, the attorney general's office said.

Its response to a freedom of information request from The Associated Press covers only those instances in which its mass grave specialists got involved.

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