MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The men attacked the bus on Tuesday in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero; the motive behind the attack was robbery, the ministry said in a statement, as cited by the El Pais newspaper on Wednesday.
The dead include two students from the same school where the 43 students who disappeared two years ago went to, according to El Pais.
Forty three students disappeared in Mexico’s Guerrero state in September, 2014. They were abducted after participating in a protest against discriminatory hiring and funding practices in the city of Iguala.
Initially, authorities blamed the alleged abduction on local drug cartels and criminal gangs, but additional evidence provided by independent experts pointed to local police and army having been involved in the kidnappings.
