Mexico missing students search turns up 129 bodies and 60 secret graves

[Judi Lynn]

4. Search for missing Mexican students turns up 129 bodies unrelated to case

Search for missing Mexican students turns up 129 bodies unrelated to case

Government’s version of events questioned as none of the corpses found in 60 graves have been connected to the 43 youths who disappeared on 26 September

Nina Lakhani in Mexico City
Monday 27 July 2015 11.14 EDT

The search for 43 Mexican student teachers who disappeared after they were attacked by cartel gunmen and corrupt municipal police officers in September has unearthed the bodies of at least 129 other murder victims.

The corpses were found in 60 clandestine graves across Guerrero, the southern state where the youths vanished 10 months ago, the attorney general’s office said on Monday. None is thought to be linked to the case of the students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college.

The new figures, which were released following a freedom of information request by the Associated Press, have prompted fresh anger at the government’s failure to tackle Mexico’s epidemic of disappearances – and its refusal to investigate allegations that the army may have also played a role in the Ayotzinapa attack.

Only 16 of the 129 bodies have so far been identified; 20 were women, 92 were men, while the gender of the rest has yet to be determined.

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