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Shootings at Mexico cockfight, football field kill 14

– Remains found in pit –

Guerrero is the state where 43 teacher college students disappeared after they were abducted by local police in the city of Iguala on September 26, 2014.

Prosecutors say the officers handed the students over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which killed them, incinerated their bodies at a landfill in the town of Cocula and threw bags of remains in a nearby river.

The case has renewed interest in the plight of the 25,000 people who remain missing across Mexico.

It also led to the discovery of more bodies buried in clandestine graves around the region.

A group of citizens dubbed “The Committee of the Other Disappeared of Iguala” found human bones in another pit on Sunday near the city.

The group, which was created a year ago, claims to have found 105 human remains in 60 mass graves, of which 13 have been identified and 11 delivered to relatives of the victims.

The members of the group use picks and shovels to find human remains, even though they say authorities have ordered them to stop.

Authorities “can put me in jail, but we are alone,” said committee leader Mario Vergara, whose brother Tomas is missing. “We will keep looking for our relatives, even though the federal government doesn’t want us to.”

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