Mexico City, October 14 (teleSUR-RHC)-- After the mention of a fifth bus created controversy and further suspicion of a government cover-up, Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) has now mentioned the existence of a sixth bus on the tragic night of September 26, 2014 -- when police went on a violent rampage to prevent buses from leaving Iguala, killing six people and forcibly disappearing 43 students, whose fate is still unknown.
     
The head of the CNDH, Luis Raul Gonzalez, said the commission is developing a new line of investigation that involves a sixth bus. However, he gave no further details as to who was on board this bus or what happened to it.

The statement comes after experts from the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) revealed the existence of a fifth bus. They also exposed the drug element, which they said would explain the violent nature of the attack on students and others more than a year ago in Iguala, a city of the southern state of Guerrero.

The international experts explained that the fifth bus had been detained by federal police and its existence erased from all the Attorney General’s office files, which prompted the human rights investigators to ask the Mexican government to inquire into whether the bus was transporting drugs.
   
"The Interdisciplinary Group of Expert Investigators (GIEI of the IACHR) speaks of five buses. We are speaking of six buses and its existence is documented,” Gonzalez said. “We are developing this new line of investigation and we have advanced a lot.”

Gonzalez's statements came after he met with the Mexican Senate Human Rights Committee to discuss the Ayotzinapa case, as well as the situation of jail supervision in the country.

The ombudsman told senators the CNDH had asked the the Attorney General’s office to expand their interrogations to army personnel and other police officers. However, the government and the Ministry of Defense rejected the idea of soldiers being questioned regarding Ayotzinapa.