Four new mass graves found in Iguala

The federal forces are keeping watch in the area. (Photo: JORGE SERRATOS / EL UNIVERSAL )
Mexican
authorities found four new mass graves in Iguala, Guerrero, amounting for a
total of nine so far, even though it is not possible to determine the number of
victims or their identities, according to the head of the Attorney General's
Office (PGR) Jesús Murillo Karam, who said that it is too soon to determine if
they are the 43 student teachers who disappeared on September 26 in the area.
The
reasons for their killing have not been determined so far.
Murillo
Karam added that four detainees informed about the location of the mass graves
near Iguala, and burned bodies were found inside. According to the authorities,
they could be members of the Guerreros Unidos gang, while forensic experts are
working to identify them.
During
the investigations on the criminal aggression against students from the
teachers school in Ayotzinapa and the disappearance of 43 youngsters, the PGR
ordered the arrest of the mayor on leave of Iguala, José Luis Abarca, as well
as his wife María de los Ángeles Pineda, and the head of public security,
Felipe Flores Velázques, all of them on the lam.
The
PGR also called a member of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party, René
Juvenal Bejarano Martínez, in order to declare before the Office for Special
Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO) due to his recent comments about the
homicide of former counselor of Iguala, Arturo Hernández Cardona, and the
supposed participation of Abarca in that crime, committed in May 2013.
With
the arrests announced by Murillo Karam there is a total of 34 detainees in
relation with Ayotzinapa, 22 of them former municipal police members, who are
currently in a federal jail.