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Updated Wednesday, March 13, 2024-02:47

  • Mexico Two prosecutors who investigate the case of the Iguala 43 disappear

The two tax agents reported missing since the weekend who were part of the investigation of the 43 students who disappeared from

Ayotzinapa

in 2014 were located safe and sound on Tuesday, a federal official reported.

The experts Suay Kassandra Domínguez and Enrique Linares were found alive and are under the protection of elements of the Attorney General's Office, which is transferring them to the Mexican capital, a federal agent told the AP who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not is authorized to testify in the case.

So far, authorities have not specified where the officials were found, but local media reported that it was in the southern state of Guerrero, which borders Morelos, where they disappeared.

Domínguez and Linares were reported missing by the Persons Search Commission of the central state of Morelos, which deactivated their search file on Tuesday.

The prosecutor's offices of

Morelos and Guerrero

have not reported the location so far.

Earlier, the Mexican president,

Andrés Manuel López Obrador,

announced the disappearance and detailed that the two officials participate in the investigation of the case of the 43 students who have disappeared since 2014.

López Obrador ruled out that the incident could affect the process to clarify the disappearance of the 43 students from the

Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School

in September 2014 in the city of Iguala, also in the state of Guerrero.

He indicated that he hopes that what happened with the two agents is not related to the people who do not want the young people to be located.

During his morning conference, the president also reported the escape of a police officer suspected of being responsible for the recent death of a young man, a student at that Ayotzinapa school, which sparked violent protests in the city of

Chilpancingo,

in the south of the country, on Tuesday. that left at least four security forces personnel injured and 11 vehicles burned in front of the State Prosecutor's Office.

The

Ayotzinapa case

has been involved in controversy in recent days after the violent protest carried out last Wednesday by a group of protesters who broke down a door of the government palace to demand that the authorities speed up the investigations and that the president receive the parents of the 43 students.

In recent months, relatives and their lawyers have accused the López Obrador government of not having made progress in the investigation despite the fact that it promised at the beginning of its six-year term, in 2018, that the young people would be located and the facts would be clarified. .

Almost nine and a half years later, neither the motive for the crime nor the fate of the students is clear, although charred remains of three of the young people were found and it is presumed that they were all murdered by members of a local cartel that trafficked heroin and that acted colluded with security forces and local, state and federal authorities, including the military.

A day after the incident at the presidential palace, a student from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, was killed by police, sparking protests in that state.

Amid the tensions generated by the death of the young man, López Obrador reported on Tuesday that a police officer who was being investigated for the death of the student escaped on Monday from the place where he was detained under administrative arrest.

The president said that the search for the police officer has already begun and that a thorough investigation is being carried out to determine those responsible for the escape.