Iguala

The US ambassador to the United Nations called on Mexico on Thursday to show progress in solving the disappearance of 43 students and other high-profile allegations of human rights abuses.

Some 200 students attacked the Mexican army headquarters in the state of Guerrero to protest over the disappearance of 43 of their classmates in September 2014. The attack took place on the 35th Infantry Battalion in Chilpancingo.

Mexican police have found 61 bodies, including children, in an abandoned crematorium in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, authorities said today.

The 43 Mexican students who disappeared four months ago were murdered on the orders of a drug cartel who mistook them for members of a rival gang, the government said on Tuesday, finally confirming the deaths of the students who were also trainee teachers.

Drug gang members have described a horrific effort to make 43 teachers college students disappear, piling their bodies like cord wood on a pyre that burned for 15 hours and then wading into the ashes to pulverize, bag and dispose of remaining teeth and bones.

Mexican authorities searching for 43 missing college students have found human remains in a new area of southern Guerrero state and are testing to see if they belong to the young men who last were seen in police custody a month ago, a government official said on Monday.

Night is the most difficult time at the rural teachers college, where families have stayed on thin, bare mattresses in classrooms since 43 students went missing a month ago.

Mexico's government announced on Monday a $110,000 reward for information in the disappearance of 43 students in a case of alleged collusion between a drug gang and police.

The number of Mexican children abducted, recruited by organized crime, mutilated and murdered has surged alarmingly, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Monday.

The lush hills surrounding the southern Mexican town of Iguala have been used by criminals to bury scores of victims beneath the green canopy this year alone.

The case of 43 Mexican students missing since an attack by gang-linked police took another grim turn on Thursday with the discovery of new mass graves where suspects said some were buried.

Mexican authorities have found four new mass graves in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students after suspects said some of the young men were buried there, officials said on Thursday.

The mayor of the Mexican city where an attack by gang-linked police left six people dead and 43 students missing faces negligence charges for attending a party during the violence, authorities said on Thursday.

Hundreds of civilian militiamen scoured a southern Mexico town on Wednesday in search of 43 missing students amid fears they were executed by a gang working with local police.

On the day 43 students disappeared in this southern Mexican town, the mayor's wife was finishing up a speech to local dignitaries on family social services while townspeople waited for a celebratory dance afterward.

The US ambassador to the United Nations called on Mexico on Thursday to show progress in solving the disappearance of 43 students and other high-profile allegations of human rights abuses.

Some 200 students attacked the Mexican army headquarters in the state of Guerrero to protest over the disappearance of 43 of their classmates in September 2014. The attack took place on the 35th Infantry Battalion in Chilpancingo.

Mexican police have found 61 bodies, including children, in an abandoned crematorium in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, authorities said today.

The 43 Mexican students who disappeared four months ago were murdered on the orders of a drug cartel who mistook them for members of a rival gang, the government said on Tuesday, finally confirming the deaths of the students who were also trainee teachers.

Drug gang members have described a horrific effort to make 43 teachers college students disappear, piling their bodies like cord wood on a pyre that burned for 15 hours and then wading into the ashes to pulverize, bag and dispose of remaining teeth and bones.

Mexican authorities searching for 43 missing college students have found human remains in a new area of southern Guerrero state and are testing to see if they belong to the young men who last were seen in police custody a month ago, a government official said on Monday.

Night is the most difficult time at the rural teachers college, where families have stayed on thin, bare mattresses in classrooms since 43 students went missing a month ago.

Mexico's government announced on Monday a $110,000 reward for information in the disappearance of 43 students in a case of alleged collusion between a drug gang and police.

The number of Mexican children abducted, recruited by organized crime, mutilated and murdered has surged alarmingly, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Monday.

The lush hills surrounding the southern Mexican town of Iguala have been used by criminals to bury scores of victims beneath the green canopy this year alone.

The case of 43 Mexican students missing since an attack by gang-linked police took another grim turn on Thursday with the discovery of new mass graves where suspects said some were buried.

Mexican authorities have found four new mass graves in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students after suspects said some of the young men were buried there, officials said on Thursday.

The mayor of the Mexican city where an attack by gang-linked police left six people dead and 43 students missing faces negligence charges for attending a party during the violence, authorities said on Thursday.

Hundreds of civilian militiamen scoured a southern Mexico town on Wednesday in search of 43 missing students amid fears they were executed by a gang working with local police.

On the day 43 students disappeared in this southern Mexican town, the mayor's wife was finishing up a speech to local dignitaries on family social services while townspeople waited for a celebratory dance afterward.