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Mexican authorities informed Friday that Federal Police officials arrested two gang members allegedly involved in the disappearance of 43 trainee teachers, on September 2014, in the city of Iguala in Guerrero state. The arrests follow an attack by police forces suspected of having links with the local criminal group United Warriors.
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RT lajornadaonline: Detienen a tres sujetos vinculados al caso #Iguala #Ayotzinapa -> https://t.co/z49Rsz1xhb pic.twitter.com/NK69j1hFs4
— Edwin Gimenez (@GimenezWin)
22 Janvier 2016
“Three individuals linked to the Ayotzinapa case have been arrested. Via La Jornada online.”
The suspects, identified as Bernabe and Cruz Sotelo Salinas as well as Mauro Taboada Salgado were arrested in the city of Ayotzinapa, carrying large-calibers guns, said Renato Sales Heredia, head of the National Commission of Security (CNS).
One of them confessed he was involved in the disappearance.
Renato Sales, titular de CNS, da a conocer detención de 3 sujetos involucrados en el caso #Ayotzinapa pic.twitter.com/1LsrVA02WJ
— El Financiero TV (@ElFinancieroTv)
22 Janvier 2016
“Renato Sales, CNS official, informed that three individuals linked to Ayotzinapa’s case have been arrested.”
So far, 113 people have been detained in connection with the Ayotzinapa case, without including the three most recent arrests, added Sales.
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Context:
Forty-three students from Ayotzinapa rural teachers' college went missing in the city of Iguala while travelling to a march commemorating the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968.
Although details of the events that led to their disappearance are murky, it is widely believed that during the journey, local police intercepted the two buses they were traveling in and took them into custody, following the orders of Iguala's mayor and his wife.
It is presumed the students were then handed over to the local drug syndicate, Guerreros Unidos, or the United Warriors, and killed.
Recounting the evening to BBC Mundo Thursday, Velasquez, who was studying at the Ayotzinapa college, said he received a call from one his classmates who was travelling to Iguala amid claims that the police had begun attacking busloads of students.
The Mexican government blames corrupt local government officials acting in league with drug traffickers for the attack.
However, this version of events has been question by relatives of the missing and several journalists who allege there were both federal complicity and involvement.
