[1/6] Carlos Martin Beristain and Angela Buitrago, members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), attend the last press conference on the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College, in Mexico City, Mexico July 25, 2023. REUTERS/Raquel CunhaMEXICO CITY, July 25 (Reuters) - Mexican security forces at local, state and federal level knew about the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and were complicit in their disappearances, a report prepared by an independent investigatory panel said on Tuesday. "They all collaborated to make them disappear," GIEI panel member Carlos Beristain told a press conference ahead of the presentation of the group's final fact-finding report. The gang then killed the students and burned their bodies, their report said. In the crucial hours after the students went missing, at least 500 calls about the incident were recorded at a government security surveillance center, the report said.

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Persons: Carlos Martin Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Raquel Cunha MEXICO, Carlos Beristain, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Julio Cesar Mondragon, GIEI, Lizbeth Diaz, Kylie Madry, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Interdisciplinary Group, Independent, Training College, REUTERS, Raquel Cunha MEXICO CITY, Inter, American, Human Rights, Army, Navy, Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers ' College, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, Iguala, Guerrero, cahoots