More graves found in case of Mexico’s 43 missing

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TIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Two weeks after 43 students disappeared in a clash with police in rural southern Mexico, authorities say the suspects have led them to more mass graves, though Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam did not say how many bodies are there.

Dozens of anxious parents have gathered at a teachers college that was supposed to be their sons’ escape from life as subsistence farmers. They wait for any word on the fate of their children, eating simple meals of rice, beans and tortillas and holding prayer sessions in a makeshift shelter on the school’s covered courtyard.

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