Mexico corpse discoveries highlight ‘shocking’ crisis

Authorities say that none of the remains found are connected to the students who disappeared after clashing with police in the city of Iguala last September.

After the march, the relatives of the 43 missing students called on the government to provide credible evidence of the whereabouts of the students.

The search for 43 Mexican students who went missing 10 months ago has turned up 60 mass graves and 129 bodies in the southern state of Guerrero.

The attorney general’s office says the number of bodies found from October to May could be more, because it is counting only those instances in which its mass grave specialists get involved.

As mentioned by prosecutors, the students were turned over to a drug gang that killed them and incinerated their bodies.

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Amnesty worldwide says the discovery of 129 bodies during the search for 43 missing students highlights a “crisis of enforced disappearances” in Mexico. Their remains were allegedly put in garbage bags and dumped in a nearby river.

“We demand the re-launching of the search and the reopening of the case, which this corrupt government has refused to do”, said Vidulfo Rosales, a lawyer for the students’ families.

People protest against last year’s disappearance and presumed slaughter of 43 college students during a demonstration against missing people in Guadalajara, Mexico, on July 26, 2015.

Authorities say more than 20,000 people are listed as missing across Mexico, and there are many “disappeared” in Guerrero, a state that is a major producer of opium and a battleground among several cartels.

The information was released after a freedom of information request by the Associated Press, the BBC adds.

Gang members confessed to killing the students and burning their bodies after they were mistakenly told they belonged to a rival gang. Only one of the 43 students has been identified among the discovered remains, however.