Mexico targets former attorney general in probe of missing students case

FILE PHOTO: Attorney General Jesus Murillo speaks to the media during a news conference at the attorney general's office in Mexico City January 27, 2015. REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican prosecutors will target a former attorney general and his top aides in their investigation into the handling of a controversial probe into the disappearance five years ago of 43 student teachers, a government official said on Sunday.

The attorney general's office said on Saturday prosecutors would hold to account those who oversaw the widely-panned probe into the abduction and apparent massacre of the trainee teachers by corrupt police working with a violent drug gang.