Missing Mexican students 'not found in mass grave'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

15 October 2014 Last updated at 00:55 GMT

Missing Mexican students 'not found in mass grave'

Mexico's attorney general says DNA tests have shown that 28 bodies found in a mass grave are not those of a missing group of students.

Jesus Murillo Karam said further tests were being carried out on four other recently discovered grave sites.

The 43 students went missing three weeks ago amid violent protests in Iguala, south of Mexico City.

Mr Karam said 14 more police officers had been arrested, accused of handing the students over to a drugs gang.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. The Mexican government is deeply secretive, and slow in this investigation.

Maybe they plan to leave it unresolved.

After all, look how much is STILL covered up about the Colombian government's decades of massacres, etc., and close relationship to the death squad/paramilitaries, even though it's well known how truly dirty and violent it has been.

More from your BBC News article:

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On Tuesday, police said the gang's leader, Benjamin Mondragon, had killed himself when he was about to be arrested during an operation by Mexican security forces in the state of Morelos.

The missing students all attended a teacher training college in Iguala, some 200km (125 miles) south of Mexico City.

The college has a history of left-wing activism but it is not clear whether the students were targeted for their political beliefs.

Renewed hope

They disappeared after deadly clashes with the police on 26 September in which six people died. Eyewitnesses reported seeing them being bundled into police vans.

(My emphasis.)