Thousands of Mexicans
have blocked the access road to Acapulco airport on in protest at the
authorities’ in the way they are handling of the case of 43 missing
students. The demonstrators blocked the entrance to the airport for
three hours and clashed with police. BBC reports:
Officials said on Friday that gang members had confessed to killing the 43 students and burning their remains.
Relatives say they will not believe they are dead until independent forensic tests confirm it.
‘Slim chance’
Mexico’s Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said the chances of ever identifying the remains retrieved from the site where the students were allegedly killed were slim.
He said that the remains were so badly burned that only two bones could be salvaged for DNA testing.
Mr Murillo Karam said they would be sent to a laboratory at the University of Innsbruck in Austria specialised in recovering DNA.
In the meantime, the 43 students still have the legal status of “disappeared”.
The relatives of the missing have been highly critical of the way the investigation into the disappearance of the students has been handled.
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