Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo says evidence suggests that 43 missing trainee teachers were murdered and their charred remains thrown into a garbage dump and a river in southwest Mexico, based on the confessions of three detained gang members.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MEXICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL JESUS MURILLO, SAYING:
"Some hours ago I informed the families of the missing youth on the advances in the investigation taking place. I know that the information we have obtained causes great pain in the families, a pain that everyone shares in solidarity. The statements and confessions that we have gathered from investigations carried out unfortunately points out to the murder of a large number of people in the area of Cocula."
The government says police working with a local drug gang abducted the students
Detainees, caught a week ago, admitted to setting fire to a group of bodies near where the students went missing in late September
(Spanish) MEXICAN ATTORNE
