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Parents of missing Mexican students slam government probe

Associated Press
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    Spokesman Felipe de la Cruz, center speaks on behalf of parents of some of 43 missing students during a press conference to give the families' response to a report issued Sunday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expert group in Mexico City, Monday, April 25, 2016. There is strong evidence that Mexican police tortured some of the key suspects arrested in the disappearance of 43 students, according to the report. The group also complained the government was slow to deliver some of the evidence it had asked for and criticized government prosecutor's investigations as flawed and incomplete. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (The Associated Press)

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    Relatives of 43 missing students, accompanied by their spokesman and human rights activists, take their seats during a press conference to give the families' response to a report issued Sunday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expert group in Mexico City, Monday, April 25, 2016. There is strong evidence that Mexican police tortured some of the key suspects arrested in the disappearance of 43 students, according to the report. The group also complained the government was slow to deliver some of the evidence it had asked for and criticized government prosecutor's investigations as flawed and incomplete. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (The Associated Press)

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    Spokesman Felipe de la Cruz, center, chants along with parents of some of 43 missing students during a press conference to give the families' response to a report issued Sunday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expert group in Mexico City, Monday, April 25, 2016. There is strong evidence that Mexican police tortured some of the key suspects arrested in the disappearance of 43 students, according to the report. The group also complained the government was slow to deliver some of the evidence it had asked for and criticized government prosecutor's investigations as flawed and incomplete. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (The Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY – The parents of 43 missing students who disappeared in September 2014 are accusing the government of lying to them, planting evidence and not adequately investigating the case.

The parents' comments come a day after a group of international experts issued a report criticizing the investigation.

The report says suspects appear to have been tortured and key pieces of evidence related to the supposed burning of the students' bodies were not correctly investigated.

Parent Mario Cesar Gonzalez said Monday that prosecutors had lied and planted a bag of charred bone fragments. Tests have linked the fragments to only one of the students.

The government says a drug gang killed and burned the students. Parents reject that.

Human rights activist Mario Patron said the torture allegations endanger efforts to find the truth.