43 Abducted Students Killed, Burnt, Dumped In River — Suspect

The forty-three (43) missing Mexican student teachers, abducted after a protest on the 26th of September, have been killed and their bodies burnt, three new detainees in the case have said.

Patricia Reyes, El Pato and Agustin Garcia Reyes informed the Mexican Attorney General, Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), Jesús Murillo Karam, that they killed the 43 student teachers who were handed over to them.

According to areport, Karam said the municipal police of Iguala are related to the killing of four people whose remains were found in graves located in the Pueblo Viejo area where remains of 28 of people were found.

One of the suspects, Agustin Garcia Reyes, said after the police handed over the students, they “took them to the dustbin of Cocula. Some of the people [about 15] who were taken had already been killed [from asphyxia in the truck].”

At the "dustbin" they killed those who were still alive and burned all the bodies with diesel fuel and some other substances.

The detainees also revealed that a member of the Guerreros Unidos ("United Warriors"), a criminal organization in Guerrero state, ordered them to crush the students' burnt remains and throw it into the San Juan river in Cocula.

Media reports have it that 15 of the students died of suffocation where they were first kept.

How The Mexican Horror Happened

The 43 students were among students of a Teacher Training College those who were protesting alleged discriminatory hiring practices that favor urban students.

Police officers blocked them as they attempted to take their protest to Chilpancingo, capital city.

They also planned to interrupt the annual conference of María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, wife of Iguala mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez, in Iguala but were blocked.

Subsequently, they clashed with policemen and some gunmen who later turned out to be members of the Guerreros Unido.

In two separate attacks, 6 people, including a bus driver, a football player, woman and a student whose eyes had been gouged out and the skin of his face peeled off to a bare skull, were killed and 17 students were injured while as many as 58 were declared missing.

The only certain fact is that a large number of students and youths were abducted, sparking Mexico's biggest political and public security scandal that has roped in Iguala mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez, his wife María de losÁngeles Pineda Villa, the town's Police Chief Felipe Flores Velásquez and many others.

Nicknamed 'the butcher of Iguala' the Mayor had been severally accused of extrajudicial killings.

Unfortunately, the global outcry — megamarches with as many as 120,000 to 170,000 participants , social media campaigns and burning of government buildings, that followed their abduction could not save them.

Wikipedia offers a comprehensive breakdown of how they were abducted and killed and all those involved in the horror show.

Meanwhile, the families of the students still believe that their children are still alive.