Army implicated

Mexico City: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed yesterday that a witness implicated soldiers in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero that rocked the country.

The attack on the trainees from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College on September 26, 2014, sparked widespread protests.

The witness, known as ‘‘Juan’’, said soldiers detained a group of students, interrogated them at the army base in Iguala, then handed them to a drug gang, a newspaper Reforma reported.

The witness said members of the Guerreros Unidos gang hacked up some students with machetes and took their remains to a crematorium controlled by the gang, while others were dissolved in acid, Reforma reported. — Reuters