Authorities Arrest Three More Suspects in Ayotzinapa Missing Students Case Agence France-Presse
go to original January 23, 2016

Relatives hold pictures of some of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos during a march in Mexico City to mark the one-year anniversary of their disappearance. (Reuters/Carlos Jasso)

Update: Suspects in Mexico's Ayotzinapa Case to Face Firearms Charges (EFE)

Mexican authorities have arrested three more suspects in connection with the disappearance and presumed slaughter of 43 students in 2014.

Authorities have now detained 113 people, including police officers and drug cartel suspects, in a case that has caused international outrage and challenged President Enrique Pena Nieto s administration.

National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said Friday that three suspected members of a criminal group were detained in Iguala, the city in the southern state of Guerrero where the 43 students vanished on September 26, 2014.

Two of the suspects, aged 19 and 28, "received the young men from Iguala municipal police officers" that night, Sales said, without specifying what happened next.

Prosecutors say that Iguala police abducted the students after they seized buses for a protest and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos gang, which killed them and incinerated their bodies at a landfill.

The third suspect, a 40-year-old man, is the "main" person involved in the murder of Julio Cesar Mondragon, a student whose body was found in Iguala with his facial skin peeled off, Sales said.

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