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   MEXICO CITY - Suspects in the disappearance of 43 college   
   students have confessed to loading the youths onto dump trucks,   
   murdering them at a landfill, then burning the bodies and   
   dumping the ashen remains into a river, Mexican authorities said   
   Friday.   
      
   In a somber, lengthy explanation of the investigation, Attorney   
   General Jesus Murillo Karam played video showing hundreds of   
   charred fragments of bone and teeth fished from the river and   
   its banks. He said it will be very difficult to extract DNA to   
   confirm that they are the students missing since Sept. 26 after   
   an attack by police in the southern state of Guerrero.   
      
   "I know the enormous pain the information we've obtained causes   
   the family members, a pain we all share," Murillo Karam said at   
   a news conference. "The statements and information that we have   
   gotten unfortunately point to the murder of a large number of   
   people in the municipality of Cocula."   
      
   Some 74 people have been detained so far in a case. Authorities   
   say it said started when police, under orders of the former   
   Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and working with a drug gang, opened fire   
   on students in the city of Iguala, where they were collecting   
   donations and had commandeered public buses. Six people were   
   killed in two confrontations before the 43 were taken away and   
   handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel. Abarca   
   and his wife are among those arrested.   
      
   Murillo Karam said authorities are searching for more suspects.   
      
   The parents, human rights groups and Mexicans in general have   
   been appalled by the government's slow response to a case that   
   has exposed in the worst way decades of collusion between   
   officials and organized crime along with government inaction.   
   There had been accusations for more than a year that Abarca was   
   involved in killing and disappearing rivals but no   
   investigation. When students who survived the Iguala   
   confrontation sought help from the military the night of the   
   attack, they said they were turned away.   
      
   Parents reacting to Murillo Karam's report Friday said they have   
   lost trust in anything the government says.   
      
   "As long as there are no results, our sons are alive," Felipe de   
   la Cruz, the father of one of the disappeared. "Today they're   
   trying to close the case this way ... a blatant way to further   
   our torture by the federal government."   
      
   In the most comprehensive accounting to date of the   
   disappearances and the subsequent investigation, Murillo Karam   
   showed videotaped confessions by those who testified they used   
   dump trucks to carry the students to a landfill site in Cocula,   
   a city near Iguala. About 15 of the students were already dead   
   when they arrived at the site and the rest were shot there,   
   according to the suspects.   
      
   They then built an enormous funeral pyre that burned from   
   midnight until 2 or 3 p.m. along the River San Juan in Cocula.   
   "They assigned guards in shifts to make sure the fire lasted for   
   hours, throwing diesel, gasoline, tires, wood and plastic,"   
   Murillo Karam said.   
      
   The suspects even burned their own clothes to destroy evidence,   
   they said.   
      
   It was about 5:30 p.m. when the ashes had cooled enough to be   
   handled. Those who disposed of the bodies were told to break up   
   the burned bones, place them in black plastic garbage bags and   
   empty them into the river.   
      
   Murillo Karam said the teeth were so badly charred that they   
   practically dissolved into dust at the touch.   
      
   "The high level of degradation caused by the fire in the remains   
   we found make it very difficult to extract the DNA that will   
   allow an identification," he said.   
      
   Murillo Karma had told relatives of the missing students earlier   
   Friday that authorities believe their children are these charred   
   remains, but have no DNA confirmation.   
      
   Murillo Karam also confirmed at the news conference that human   
   remains found in mass graves discovered after the students went   
   missing did not include any of the 43 young men enrolled at a   
   radical rural teachers college. Those graves held women and men   
   believed to have been killed in August, he said.   
      
   Among the bodies found in the course of the investigation were a   
   father and son. By searching for reports of father-son   
   disappearances, authorities were able to make a positive   
   identification. Murillo Karam said the victims, whose names he   
   did not use, apparently made a call before disappearing to say   
   they were being detained by Iguala police.   
      
   http://www.newsday.com/news/world/suspects-confess-to-murdering-   
   burning-43-missing-mexican-students-bodies-1.9597040   
      
         
      
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