Guerrero State Prosecutor Says Mass Grave Near Iguala Held 28 Bodies Mark Stevenson and Jose Antonio Rivera - The Associated Press
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Bodies pulled from Mexico mass grave. (Al Jazeera)

Process/Mexico Voices Update: The state attorney general, Iñaky Blanco Cabrera, said municipal police and gunmen working for the criminal group Guerreros Unidos acted in collusion to detain and execute 17 student teachers from Ayotzinapa who were burned and buried at the place in Iguala where clandestine graves were found yesterday.

IGUALA, Mexico — A clandestine grave on the outskirts of a Mexican city where police clashed with student protesters a week ago contained 28 bodies too damaged for immediate identification, state officials said.

Guerrero State Prosecutor Inaky Blanco said he could not say whether any of the dead could be some of the 43 college students reported missing after the violent confrontation in Iguala, located about 120 miles (200 kilometers) south of Mexico City.

He said genetic testing of the remains could take two weeks to two months.

Blanco said one of the people detained in the case had told investigators that 17 students were taken to the grave site on the outskirts of the Iguala and killed there. But he stressed that investigators had not confirmed the person's story.

"As long as the identity of the cadavers has not been resolved we will continue the search" for the missing students, he said Sunday.

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