Mexico fires 2 officials in probe of Debanhi Escobar’s death

Two prosecution officials were fired Wednesday over “omissions and errors” in the search for a missing woman found dead last week in northern Mexico, authorities said.

Gustavo Guerrero, attorney general of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, did not describe what errors the two officials may have committed.

But the motel where the young woman’s body was found in an underground water holding tank had previously been searched several times before her body was finally found, only after a motel employee reported a foul odor coming from the cistern.

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