Mass Grave Discovered and 4 Arrested as Search for Missing Mexico Students Continues UPI
go to original October 28, 2014

Mexican authorities have made four new arrests in the search for missing students. (euronews)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced that a new mass grave has been discovered in Guerrero state as investigators search for 43 missing university students.

It is unclear what led investigators to the mass grave near a landfill in Cocula, approximately 30 miles from the town of Iguala where the students were last seen clashing with local police on Sept. 26.

DNA testing is being conducted on the remains.

Hours after the discovery, federal authorities arrested four members of the Guerreros Unidos gang for conspiring with local police to kidnap the students.

"We have the people who carried out the abduction on these individuals," Karam told reporters. Two of the gang members, Karam noted, confessed to involvement in the forced disappearance, admitting they had "received a large group of people."

Federal authorities have so far arrested 56 people, mostly local police, in connection with the students' disappearance. Karam has condemned Guerrero state for its "network of complicity" between drug cartels and police departments.

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