Almost a decade ago, 43 students vanished in southern Mexico while heading to the capital by bus.
Mexican authorities have apprehended a gang of soldiers accused of being involved in the kidnapping of 43 students in the country’s south in 2014.
On Monday, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Alejandro Encinas tweeted that eight troops had been detained.
Four other troops have already been apprehended, including a commander who is accused of ordering the assassination of six of them.
The eight soldiers were apprehended last week when the Mexican Attorney General’s office revived 16 arrest orders issued against military personnel in September 2020 but then cancelled them.
An independent committee probing the 2014 disappearance, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), accused the Mexican armed forces of purposefully withholding facts regarding the case.
Due to the suspected involvement of state authorities, a panel designated the occurrence as a state crime in August 2022.