Mexican Police Intensify Search for Missing Students in Outskirts of Iguala Carola Sole - Agence France-Presse
go to original October 20, 2014

The hunt goes on in the Mexican state of Guerrero for dozens of students who disappeared almost three weeks ago. The case - and the now almost daily discovery of graves - has highlighted just how many people have been disappeared in the area. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from Iguala. (Al Jazeera)

IGUALA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA, Mexico – Mexican authorities have intensified efforts to find 43 students who disappeared more than three weeks ago, using dogs, horses and divers to broaden the search.

About 50 vehicles, carrying some 200 members of a special division of the federal police, arrived in Xonacatla, which is located close to the town of Iguala, where the students disappeared on September 26.

"We are scouring all places that could be of interest," said Manelich Castilla, commissioner for the police division, known as the Gendarmeria Nacional, which is leading the operation.

Authorities said the search had been expanded to include bodies of water such as lakes and ponds, as well as in the numerous mines and caves of the mountains around Iguala.

More than 1,200 security forces are now looking for the college students around Iguala, a town of 140,000 inhabitants.

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