'Some bodies' not of missing Mexico students, governor claims

The governor of the southern Mexico state where 43 college students disappeared after a confrontation with police said Saturday that some of the bodies recovered from clandestine graves last weekend did not match the missing young people. Angel Aguirre, governor of Guerrero state, declined to confirm how many bodies had already been identified, and an official in the prosecutor’s office declined to confirm the information, stressing that the investigation remains opened.

I can say that some of the bodies, according to the work of forensics experts, do not correspond to the youths from Ayotzinapa.

Governor Angel Aguirre, referring to the town where the youths were studying before their disappearance in Iguala, 200km from Mexico City

Two Guerreros Unidos hitmen confessed to executing 17 of the students – who are from a teacher training college known as a bastion of protests – and dumping them in the mass grave found earlier this month. Authorities say crooked officers shot at buses the students had seized to return home on September 26, sparking a night of violence that left six people dead, 25 wounded and 43 missing. Surveillance cameras showed several students being taken away in patrol cars.

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