COCULA, Mexico ― Forensic experts combed a gully in southern Mexico on Tuesday for the remains of 43 missing students, as frustration mounted among relatives of both the disappeared and the detained over the lack of answers more than a month into the investigation.
Workers in protective gear focused on a 25-by-25 foot-square area below the ridge of the municipal dump in Cocula, a town in Guerrero state where police have been arrested and linked to the Sept. 26 disappearances. But authorities have not said so far how many bodies have been found or in what condition.
Parents of the students say they were not even notified of the latest remains, discovered Monday based on the testimony of four new detainees in the case.
“We’re angry and very tired,” said Mario Cesar Gonzalez, father of missing Cesar Manuel Gonzalez. “We have an overwhelming sense of helplessness.”
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said he has nothing concrete so far regarding the remains.
“I prefer taking more time to find the truth than rushing to put out a guess, imagination or invention,” he said in a press conference Tuesday.
A parent who spoke on conditional of anonymity said the group would meet in Mexico City on Wednesday with President Enrique Pena Nieto.
