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Mexico investigators comb gully for missing 43

Forensic examiners stand atop a garbage-strewn hillside where authorities are searching for human remains in the densely forested mountains outside Cocula, in Guerrero state, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Suspects arrested this week told prosecutors that many of the 43 students who disappeared Sept. 26 from Iguala had been held near this location. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, Pool) Forensic examiners stand atop a garbage-strewn hillside where authorities are searching for human remains in the densely forested mountains outside Cocula, in Guerrero state, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Suspects arrested this week told prosecutors that many of the 43 students who disappeared Sept. 26 from Iguala had been held near this location. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, Pool)

By Associated Press October 28, 2014 1 min read

COCULA, Mexico (AP) – Forensic experts are combing a gully in southern Mexico for the remains of 43 missing students based on testimony from two new suspects.

Workers in protective gear are focusing on a 25-by-25 foot-square area below the ridge of the municipal dump in Cocula, a town in Guerrero state where police have been arrested and linked to the Sept. 26 disappearances.

Journalists taken to the site Tuesday saw clothing but nothing resembling remains. It appeared that some debris on the hillside had fallen from dump above. Workers were not digging, rather working the surface for clues.

The rural teachers college students disappeared after an attack by police in nearby Iguala. Authorities say it was ordered by former Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and carried out by police working with a local cartel.