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Mexico City, Mexico - 9 February 2016
1. Wide of news conference; images of missing students on table
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Mercedes Doretti, member of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology:
"The multidisciplinary tests of biological and non-biological evidence retrieved from the Cocula dump, and the additional information gathered, does not support the hypothesis that there was a fire with the strength and duration (that we were) informed (took place) in the early hours of September 27th of 2014, and which would have resulted in the mass incineration of the 43 missing."
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4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Mercedes Doretti, member of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology:
"In the opinion of the Argentine Team, there is no enough scientific evidence for now to link the remains found in the Cocula dump with those retrieved by the Attorney General in the bag in the San Juan river, from where the only positive identification of a student comes, the one of Alexander Mora Venancio."
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6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Mario Gonzalez, parent of missing student:
"We, as parents, know perfectly well that the attack that was so coordinated against our 43 students and the six fallen (six students who were killed). We are seeing also, that the historic lie was also very coordinated. But fortunately, with these words (of the forensic team) and the certainty they bring, their historic truth has fallen."
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FILE: Cocula, Mexico - October 28 2014
7. Various of forensics workers at Cocula dump
STORYLINE:
A group of Argentine forensic experts said on Tuesday it has determined there's no biological or physical evidence to conclude that 43 students who disappeared in southern Mexico in 2014 were incinerated at a rubbish dump as government investigators initially claimed.
The report, released by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, signalled that the dump in Cocula, Guerrero state, was the site of multiple fires at various times, but while the remains of at least 19 people were found near there, there's no evidence they belong to the missing students.
The government has said the students were killed by a drug gang, their remains incinerated, and their charred bone fragments gathered up and tossed in bags in a nearby river.
Some of those bone fragments have been linked by DNA testing - in one case positively, and in another case, tentatively - to two of the missing students.
But because the forensics team was not present when a bag containing the fragments was recovered, they cannot vouch that those fragments came from the dump.
The team also said that largely undamaged plants found at the supposed site of the pyre would have been killed or been severely damaged by a fire of such intensity.
It is the second independent report to reject the Mexican government's main finding from a little over a year ago about what happened to the students, who were taken by police in the nearby city of Iguala on 26 September 2014, and allegedly handed over to local members of a drug gang for slaughter.
They remain missing.
The students' disappearance attracted local and international opprobrium and has been a stain on the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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