MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) — Two of four recently arrested suspects have provided information leading to a new crime site related to the disappearance of the 43 students in Iguana city, Mexico’s attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam said Monday during a press conference.
“Two of the detained [suspects] have referred to receiving a big group of people [at a crime site on the night of the student’s disappearance], and at this time they are giving statements about their fate,” Karam said as quoted by BBC.
“At the same time a group of experts from the attorney general’s office, and a group of experts from Argentina, are searching for evidence to corroborate the statements of the detained [about the site],” he added.
Local media reported that in his speech Karam was referring to a new mass grave. During investigations, other sites with mass graves were found, but the bodies uncovered did not belong to the missing students, based on DNA testing.
According to ongoing investigations, on September 26 the local police and members of drug cartels attacked the students, who were holding demonstrations against imposed educational reforms. The city mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, reportedly ordered the attacks on the students. Wanted by authorities for questioning, he is currently on the run.
Following the allegations on the mayor and criticism on the handling of crime cases in Iguala, the former governor, Angel Aguirre voluntarily left office to give way for investigations. A new interim governor, Rogelio Ortega Martinez was put in office on Sunday.
“Governor [Martinez] I wish you success [in the investigations], and we are here to assist you with the big responsibility that the people of Guerrero have entrusted in you,” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said at a press conference, following the governor’s inauguration, as quoted by BBC.
Mexico’s General Prosecution Office had earlier announced a reward of 1.5 million pesos (about $111,000) for any information on each missing student, as well as any information that can help identity the suspects involved in the disappearance.
