Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Satellite images put into question Mexico’s story of 43 missing students

A group of independent experts say satellite photographs show no signs of fire at a garbage dump in southern Mexico where a group of 43 students were supposedly killed and incinerated in 2014.

The experts previously said they don't believe prosecutors' version that a drug gang incinerated the students' bodies at a dump in the hamlet of Cocula, because such a large fire couldn't have taken place there.

On Monday the experts said satellite photos from Sept. 26 and 27, 2014 . . .

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