Federal Forces Join Relatives in Search for Missing Students in Guerrero State Rachel Levin - Al Jazeera
go to original October 3, 2014

In Mexico, families of dozens of students who allegedly went missing at the hands of the police have joined the search to try and find them. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from Iguala. (Al Jazeera)

Desperate relatives join soldiers in the search for 44 students who disappeared during protests in the Mexican town of Iguala in Guerrero state. The BBC writes:

The trainee teachers are missing since last Friday. They were last seen being bundled into police vans during protests over job discrimination against rural teachers. Police had opened fire on their buses and on protestors killing six people and injuring 17.

Some 22 officers are being held in connection with the shooting.

In Iguala and in the outskirts of the town relatives knocked on doors of homes handing out pictures of their loved ones.

Backed by soldiers and state police they looked in gullies, on empty land and in villages around Iguala in the hopes of finding traces of the students. Manuel Olivares, coordinator of the Guerrerense Network of Human Rights Organisations told the French news agency, AFP:

"The search is taking place in places that people know as being high-risk because organised crime dominates these places. "

He said while the families were hopeful their loved ones would turn up alive, they were looking in places that gangs use to bury bodies.

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