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Mexican experts to investigate case of missing students

MEXICAN President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has formally requested the return of expert investigators to examine the case of 43 students who disappeared in 2014.

The presence of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), who initially investigated the Ayotzinapa case, has been one of the main demands of the families of the disappeared students to the Mexican government.

Their initial findings discredited the government narrative that the 43 were killed and had their bodies incinerated by Mexican gangs when they were handed over after being held in police custody.

The students were heading from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' School of Ayotzinapa to Iguala, Guerrero for a commemoration of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre on September 26, 2014.

Their coach was stopped by police and there was reportedly an exchange of gunfire before they were detained. What followed next is unclear, but the students disappeared after being taken into custody, with many of the bodies still missing.

Mr Obrador will also establish an independent Truth and Justice Commission for the case which has previously been blocked by the government saying only the Public Ministry has the authority to investigate.

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