Mexico sends clothing, other items for genetic testing nearly year after students disappeared
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Mexican authorities have passed clothing that belonged to some of the 43 students missing from rural teachers' college to a lab in Austria for genetic testing.
The attorney general's office said in a statement Tuesday that it sent some 53 items to the University of Innsbruck almost a year after the students' disappearance.
The announcement came after a panel of independent experts working under the auspices of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights criticized the government's investigation for not testing the items or informing the students' families that they existed.
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According to the government, the 43 students from the teachers' college in Guerrero state were seized by police in Iguala on Sept. 26, 2014. The police turned them over to a drug gang that killed them and incinerated their remains.