Mexico mayor arrested in students' disappearance charged with homicide
Mexico mayor arrested in students' disappearance charged with homicide
The Guerrero state's attorney's office announced homicide charges have been filed against former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca in connection with a Sept. 26 attack on university students in his town.
By JC Finley Follow @OneCuriousWorld Contact the Author | Nov. 14, 2014 at 12:51 PM
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The mayor arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico's Guerrero state has been charged with homicide.
According to the Guerrero state attorney's office, prosecutors have charged Jose Luis Abarca with six counts of aggravated homicide and one count of attempted homicide.
Abarca and his wife are considered the "probable masterminds" in the Sept. 26 attack on the students from Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa. According to Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, the couple wanted to get rid of the students because they didn't want the students' protest to disrupt a planned political event hosted by Pineda in the town the same day.
The students were aboard three commercial buses they had earlier commandeered (a common practice among students in Mexico and largely tolerated) and en route to a planned demonstration when local police blocked the buses and opened fire. Three students and three others were killed in the ambush. Some of the students were able to escape while 43 students were last seen being taken into police custody.
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