Veracruz College Hit by a Wave of Beatings, Kidnappings and Even a Plague of Insects Alasdair Baverstock - MailOnline
go to original September 4, 2015

A woman holds up a picture of one of the four victims of the attack on a birthday party at Veracruz University two months ago. (Daily Mail)

Following a spate of disappearances, kidnappings, beatings and epidemics of dengue fever and chikungunya, a Mexican university is now considered the most dangerous place on the planet to be a student.

Based in state capital Xalapa, the University of Veracruz has only seen 78 per cent of its students return for the start of the academic year as the institution goes through a period which staff are comparing to 'the plagues of Egypt'.

'We've had death, plagues of insects, deadly disease, terrible violence', a spokesman for the university told MailOnline.

'It's not going to take many more atrocities to complete the set.'

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