Argentine Investigators Cast Doubt on Mexico's Claim Over Student Remains Daniel Hernandez - VICE News
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A Body is Identified: Mexico's Disappeared Students - Dispatch 1 (VICE News)

A team of independent Argentine forensics investigators cast doubt this week on the government's claim that one of the missing Mexican students' remains was found amid debris recovered from a river near a dump where the 43 were allegedly incinerated.

The Argentine group did confirm that a bone fragment recovered from the San Juan river near Cocula, Guerrero, where the executions reportedly took place, belongs to Ayotzinapa Normal School student Alexander Mora, 19. They are still examining 16 more human remains or bone fragments recovered from the river and the dump.

The confirmation makes Mora the first fatality in the missing students case apart from the three students and three bystanders killed on the night of September 26 in the city of Iguala.

But in its statement, the Argentine Forensics Anthropology Team, or EAAF, said it could not verify the government's claim that the bone fragment was recovered from a plastic bag thrown into the river, as Mexican attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam said Sunday.

"The EAAF was not present at the moment the divers and the [attorney general's investigators] recovered the bag and did not participate in the finding of this fragment," the statement said.

The Argentine team also said that, although ashes and remains were recovered from both the Cocula dump and from the San Juan river, the evidence that "unites the two sites, for now, is essentially testimonial," referring to the three taped confessions of suspects who said they participated in the mass execution.

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