Mexico identifies remains of one more of missing 43 students
Posted July 7, 2020 4:03 pm.
Last Updated July 7, 2020 4:08 pm.
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Tuesday they have identified the remains of a second of the 43 students who disappeared in September 2014.
Omar Gómez Trejo, head of the special unit of the Attorney General’s Office charged with reinvestigating the case, said that new remains found in November were subjected to DNA analysis this year at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Last month, the university informed investigators that one of the bone fragments pertained to student Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre of Tixtla, Guerrero.
That conclusion was analyzed by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which has been advising the Attorney General’s Office, and they concurred.
On Sept. 26, 2014, students from the teachers college at Ayotzinapa in the southern state of Guerrero were abducted by local police in the town of Iguala. They were then allegedly turned over to a local gang.
The bone fragment was located in Cocula, Guerrero, but not at a garbage dump where the previous administration said the students bodies had been burned or in a nearby river where their ashes were allegedly dumped.
Gómez said the fragments were found at another site called Butchers Ravine about a half mile from the dump.
It is only the second time remains have been positively identified for one of the missing students.
Gómez said he travelled to Rodríguez’s home town Sunday to tell his family.
The Associated Press
