No Remains of Missing Mexican Students Found in Mass Graves As Yet
Raising the hopes of relatives and friends of the 43 missing students, authorities said Tuesday that DNA tests of the charred remains found in southern Mexico's mass graves were not of the students, the Associated Press reports.
"We have some (DNA) results for the first pits and I can tell you that they do not correspond to the DNA that relatives of these young men have given us," Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told the media, Al Jazeera reports.
According to the Voice of America, the authorities did not reveal as to who the charred remains belong to. Forensic teams are conducting tests on the remains found in the rest of the graves.
Apart from this, the Mexican authorities also revealed 14 more arrests in connection with the disappearance of the teachers' college students had been made. The arrested, mostly officers, confessed to participating in the disappearance of the students, Karam said.
The 43 students clashed with the local police and were last seen being bundled into police cars. The prosecutors believe that the Mexican police working with the local drug cartel, is behind the disappearance.
The 14 arrested police officers belong to the Cocula police force. Cocula is a town neighboring Iguala - where the clash between the police and the students took place in the state of Guerrero. It has been learnt that both the mayor as well as the police chief of Iguala are fugitives. They are accused of having links with the local drug cartel, Guerrero Unidos, believed to have played a role in the disappearance of the missing students.
The first mass grave was discovered a week after the Sept. 26 incident. The 10th was found Tuesday.
