Forensic experts identify second of 43 Mexican students
Thursday, 17 September 2015
The remains of another of 43 missing student teachers have been identified by forensic experts at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, Mexico's attorney general has said.
Arely Gomez said the student is Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz of the town of Omeapa, in the southern state of Guerrero, where the students disappeared nearly a year ago.
He is the second to be identified after Alexander Mora Venancio was identified last December.
The students disappeared on September 26, 2014, at the hands of local police while they were hijacking buses for transportation to a demonstration.
The government said they were detained by police in Iguala and Cocula and given to a drug gang and incinerated in a giant pyre at a rubbish dump.
The government says the ashes were then bagged and dumped into a nearby river. The attorney general's office said earlier this year that most of the remains were too charred to extract DNA material, according to NDTV.
--Samir--