Gang Members Confess to Mass Killing of Missing Mexico Students Al Jazeera
go to original November 8, 2014

Suspects in the disappearance of 43 college students have described a macabre and complicated mass murder and incineration ending with ashen remains in a landfill or being dumped into a river in southwest Mexico, Mexican authorities said Friday.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo cited the confessions of three detained gang members. Murillo said the detainees admitted they set fire to members of the group in a rubbish dump near the southwestern city of Iguala, where the students went missing on Sept. 26 after clashing with police on their way to a rally to protest proposed government educational reforms.

Dozens of police are also among more than 70 people held in connection with the case, amid accusations that they colluded with the drug gangs in abducting the students. If true, the charge would undermine President Enrique Peña Nieto's claims that Mexico has become safer on his watch.

"There are many indications ... that could indicate it is them," Attorney General Jesus Murillo told a news conference, referring to the corpses found at the trash dump. Murillo showed taped confessions of the detained, photographs of the location where remains were found and video re-enactments of how the bodies were moved.

"The confessions we have gathered ... very sadly point to the murder of a large number of people," he added.

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