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Mexico: Two bodies found near site where students went missing
Rights activists compare Mexico slaughter to Argentina’s dirty war

TWO bodies have been found in Mexico near where 43 student teachers disappeared in 2014, it was revealed on Thursday.

Attorney General Arely Gomez said investigators had begun the forensic process of identifying the skeletal remains.

She said the remains were found in the area between Cocula and Iguala, the city where the students disappeared in September 2014 in a confrontation with police.

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