Relatives of Missing Mexican Students Call for Nationwide March Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original October 5, 2014

The UN has urged the Mexican government to find 43 missing students, who vanished after police shootings last week. Relatives of the students have criticised the search efforts and have called for a federal investigation. Al Jazeera’s Rachel Levin reports from Mexico City. (Al Jazeera)

AYOTZINAPA, Mexico – Relatives of 43 trainee teachers who went missing in southern Mexico a week ago called on Saturday for a nationwide march next week to protest the slow pace of the investigations and demand that authorities locate their loved ones.

In a gathering with the media at the teacher training college in the rural community of Ayotzinapa where those young people were studying, the families said they will march on Wednesday to demand that investigators determine what happened on the night of Sept. 26.

The students went missing after a night of violence in Iguala – a city in the crime-plagued state of Guerrero – in which six people were killed, including three students of the training college for future primary-school instructors, and 25 were injured.

The murky series of events included an attack on a bus carrying members of a third-division soccer team.

Twenty-two local police suspected of firing at the students for reasons yet unknown have been arrested, although the involvement of organized crime elements has not been ruled out.

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