(26 Sep 2020) Parents of 43 students kidnapped in Mexico six years ago are preparing to mark the anniversary of their disappearance.
The students were seized by police from a teachers' college in Ayotzinapa in the south of the country.
Marking the anniversary on Saturday, authorities are preparing to release a report on a new investigation into the case.
Parents are speculating it could include information on the possible involvement of federal police or soldiers in the abduction.
The 43 students were abducted by corrupt local police in the town of Iguala.
They were then reportedly turned over to a local gang that killed them and burned their bodies.
But burnt bone fragments found near a local garbage dump have been matched to only two of the students.  
Many of the suspects initially arrested in the case were later released, and many claimed they had been tortured by police or the military.
In March, a judge issued an arrest warrant for Tomas Zerón, the former head of investigations for the Attorney General's Office, for alleged violations in the investigation of the case.
Zerón and five other former officials face charges including torture, forced disappearance and judicial misconduct.
Zerón was at the center of an earlier investigation into the case, which was widely criticised after it failed to come up with any definitive account of what happened.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with the parents Saturday and his administration has pledged to get to the bottom of the mystery and prosecute anyone responsible.

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