Prosecutor leading probe into missing Mexican students resigns

FILE PHOTO: Women wearing face masks hold a Mexican flag as relatives of the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College march on the 6th anniversary of their disappearance in Mexico City, Mexico September 26, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The prosecutor leading the investigation into the abduction and suspected murder of 43 Mexican student teachers in 2014 has resigned over disagreements about the process, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.

Omar Gomez was appointed to the head the probe into the disappearances of the Ayotzinapa college student teachers in 2019 not long after Lopez Obrador came to power.