Newly Found Mass Graves Could be Linked to Ayotzinapa Missing Students Television del Sur
go to original November 4, 2015

Mexican authorities will exhume the remains of one of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students. (teleSUR English)

Federal authorities said Wednesday that they are investigating three mass graves with an estimated 60 bodies just south of where the 43 Ayotzinapa were forcibly disappeared over a year ago, according to various local news reports.

Local residents denounced that the drug gang Guerreros Unidos, or United Warriors, – the group that the federal government accused of torturing and killing the Ayotzinapa students after they were handed over to them by municipal police – was likely responsible for the mass graves, Aristegui Noticias reported. At least six bodies were also recently found, according to reports.

Locals told reporters they had previously contacted the Ayotzinapa families to inform them of the mass graves in Carrizalillo, Guerrero, about 50 miles south of Iguala, where on Sept. 26, 2014, the teacher trainee students were violently attacked while travelling on buses collecting money to travel to Mexico City to mark the 47th anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre.

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