FILE PHOTO: Students of Ayotzinapa Teachers Training College "Raul Isidro Burgos" line up to receive food before marking the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the college, in Tixtla, in Guerrero state, Mexico September 22, 2019. REUTERS/Luis Cortes
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican officials have begun scouring new sites for the remains of 43 student teachers including a garbage dump near where they disappeared five years ago, after re-opening a case that plunged the last government into a crisis.
The abduction and apparent massacre of the youths by corrupt police working with a violent drug gang drew international outrage and led to widespread condemnation of the administration of Mexico's previous president, Enrique Pena Nieto.
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