Mexican police have captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife who the government has blamed for ordering the disappearance of 43 student teachers feared massacred in September, officials said on Tuesday.
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The students were abducted by police in league with a local drug gang in the southwestern city of Iguala after clashes there on the night of Sept. 26, sparking a huge manhunt and embarrassing President Enrique Pena Nieto.
People protest the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico City. Authorities searching for the students have found human remains in a new area and are testing the remains to see if they belong to the students. (Marco Ugarte/The Associated Press)
Jose Ramon Salinas, spokesman for federal police, said on his Twitter account that Jose Luis Abarca, who was at the time mayor of Iguala and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda were captured in Mexico City.
Separately, a government official said more information would be released about the capture later on Tuesday.
The government is still searching for the students, whose disappearance has shocked the country and undermined Pena Nieto's claims that Mexico has become safer under his watch.
