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Mexico governor: Some bodies aren’t of students

By Washington Examiner
Published October 12, 2014 1:06am ET
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Mexico governor: Some bodies aren’t of students
Mexican navy marines and officers belonging to the Attorney General's Office guard the area where new clandestine mass graves were found near the town of La Joya, on the ouskisrts of Iguala, Mexico, Thursday Oct. 9, 2014. Two weeks after 43 students disappeared in a confrontation with police in rural southern Mexico, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced that suspects had led investigators to four new mass graves near the southern city of Iguala where authorities unearthed 28 badly burned bodies last weekend. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) | Felix Marquez

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of the southern Mexico state where 43 college students disappeared after a confrontation with police said Saturday that some of the bodies recovered from clandestine graves last weekend did not match the missing young people.

The federal attorney general, however, said he felt it was too soon in testing of the remains to come to any conclusions.

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