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Police find mass grave near Mexico town
Site with burial pits holding bodies discovered
near Iguala, in Guerrero state, where 43 students
went missing recently.
A clandestine grave site with multiple burial pits
holding an undetermined number of bodies has
been found outside a town in Mexico's Guerrero
state where violence last week resulted in six
deaths and the disappearance of 43 students.
Inaky Blanco, Guerrero's prosecutor, said on
Saturday the grave site was on the outskirts of
Iguala, about 200km south of Mexico City.
He said the remains would be sent to
Mexico's forensic service to determine whether or
not the corpses match those of the missing
students.
"In the next few hours we will determine the
cause of death and the number of bodies," a
spokesman for the state attorney general's office
said.
While there was no official count, Reuters
reported that the remains of up to 20 people
were found.
A member of the Mexican government's National
Human Rights Commission told Al Jazeera that he
believed the remains, found in six burial pits,
were indeed of the missing students. He said the
bodies were burned and looked as if they were
put into the pits recently.
The graves were found on a hillside in rugged
territory of Iguala's poor Pueblo Viejo district, and
was heavily guarded by dozens of soldiers,
marines and federal and state police who kept
journalists away from the site.
Series of shootings
Violence is frequent in Guerrero, a southern state
where poverty feeds social unrest and drug gangs
clash over territory.
Iguala was rocked by a series of clashes and
shootings late on September 27 and early the
next day.
State prosecutors have said the first bloodshed
occurred when city police shot at buses that had
been hijacked by protesting students from a
teachers college.
Three youths were killed and 25 people were
wounded.
A few hours later, unidentified masked men fired
shots at two taxis and a bus carrying a football
team on the main highway, killing two people on
the bus and one in a taxi.
After the violence, Guerrero state authorities said
43 students had been reported missing since the
protesters' confrontation with police.
Blanco has said local police are being investigated
for roles in the disappearance.
He said state investigators had obtained videos
showing that local police arrested an
undetermined number of students after the first
incident and took them away.
Officials say 22 officers are facing homicide
charges, according to the Associated Press.
Angel Aguirre, Guerrero's governor, has said
investigators are also looking at possible
involvement of organised crime groups, which he
charged have infiltrated the town government.
Mayor suspected
Vidulfo Rosales, a lawyer for a local human rights
group who is assisting the families of the missing
students, said before the burial pits were found
that relatives believed the youths had been
turned over to a drug gang by police.
Rosales said some students who escaped the
shooting said they saw other students being
carried away in several police pickup vehicles.
Al Jazeera's Adam Raney, reporting from the area
where the graves were found, said parents of the
students had been pushing officials to get more
involved in the case.
"The fact is it took several days just for the
governor to speak to them and when he did, he
just blamed the mayor of Iguala who has now
fled that town. He's under inditement and under
suspicion of taking part somewhow in the
abducion and disappearence of those 43
students."
The Aytozinapa Normal school attended by the
missing students, like many other schools in
Mexico's "rural teachers college" system, is known
for radical protests that often involve hijacking
buses and delivery lorries.
In December 2011, two students from Aytozinapa
died in a clash with police on the highway that
leads to the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
Students had allegedly hijacked buses and
blocked the road to press demands for more
funding and assured jobs after graduation.
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