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Two detectives who have been investigating the 43 student teachers who were abducted and killed in 2014 in Mexico are now missing, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador revealed Tuesday.
Suay Domínguez, 30, and Enrique Linares, 40, were last seen Sunday in Cuernavaca, a capital of the central state of Morelos.
The federal agents, who are assigned to the Morelos State Attorney General’s Office, were traveling to the Pacific coast state of Guerrero to investigate the death last Thursday of student teacher Yanqui Peralta, 23, in Ayotzinapa.
López Obrador said that a search effort was underway to find Domínguez and Linares.
“I hope this is not related to those who do not want us to find the youths,” the leftist leader told reporters during Tuesday’s daily press briefing at the National Palace in Mexico City.
Suay Domínguez is one of two Mexican federal detectives who have been missing since Sunday when they traveled from the central state of Morelos to the Pacific coast state of Guerrero to investigate last Thursday's police shooting death of Yanqui Peralta, a student teacher
Federal detective Enrique Linares (pictured) and his fellow partner Suay Domínguez are assigned to the Morelos State Attorney General's Office. They have been investigating the September 2014 abduction and murder of 43 student teachers in Iguala, a city in the Pacific coast of Guerrero
The disappearances of Domínguez and Linares were the latest signs of what appeared to be a generalized breakdown in law and order in Guerrero state, home to the resort of Acapulco.
The state has been dogged for a decade by the case of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College who were allegedly abducted by cops in the municipality of Iguala on September 26, 2014 and turned over to a drug gang to be killed.
Students at that college, located in Tixtla, north of Acapulco, have a long history of demonstrating and clashing with police.
Peralta was shot dead in what police said was a confrontation with him and three other students after they were stopped in a vehicle that had been reported stolen.
The Guerrero State Attorney General’s Office said the students refused to get out of the car and were
