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Hitmen admit killing 17 of 43 missing Mexican students

It was Iguala’s public security director, Francisco Salgado Valladares, who ordered two gang members to go to the site of the students’ buses, Blanco said.

The two hitmen then received instructions from a Guerreros Unidos leader known as “El Chucky” to take the students and kill them, he said.

The gangsters made the students exit a bus. “They grabbed 17, took them to the top of a hill in Pueblo Viejo where they have clandestine graves and where they say they killed them,” Blanco said.

 

– ‘Land of the wicked’ –

 

Authorities have issued arrest warrants for the town’s mayor and security chief, both of whom have disappeared.

Some 30 people have been detained over the shootings, including at least 22 police officers.

Authorities said the mass grave was located following interrogations of the suspects. Soldiers cordoned off the area. Officials said the pit was up a steep hill filled with thick vegetation.

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In Pueblo Viejo, a hamlet surrounded by forests and mountains, a resident said the region is dominated by gangsters and that he had seen municipal police officers going up the hill in recent days, before authorities discovered the mass grave.

“They were going up there back and forth,” said the resident, Jose Garcia, pointing to a location between two mountains where the graves were found. “This is the land of the wicked.”

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