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6 of the 43 missing Mexican students were turned over to the army, official says

Family members and friends march seeking justice for the missing 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City on Friday. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

MEXICO CITY — Six of the 43 college students "disappeared" in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.

Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico's worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission's report released a week earlier.

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