(Reuters) - Mexican police killed three trainee teachers, shot another in the head and another in the face, and herded dozens more into police trucks to what investigators fear was a massacre on a remote hillside, survivors of the incident say. On the night of Sept. 26, officers that a state prosecutor says have links to a violent criminal gang in the southwestern city of Iguala pursued about 80 members of a nearby teaching college well-known for its left-wing radicalism, witnesses said. At least three students were killed in a series of clashes that began after the youths commandeered three buses from the citys bus station, the state government of Guerrero said. Students say the shooting began after they resisted police demands to give up the buses, and that they then fled on foot. Three students were killed and another three people - including a taxi driver, his passenger and a teenage soccer player - also died in the gunfire. Investigators have since found 28 corpses buried in mass graves on a hillside outside Iguala, in the state of Guerrero. State security officials believe some of the 43 students still missing since the confrontation are among the victims.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:28:04 +0000
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