Mexico's Army monitored the activities of the 43 missing students for 15 hours

Mexico's Army monitored the activities of the 43 missing students for 14 hours, from 19:40 hrs. on September 26, when they arrived at Km. 127 of the Iguala-Chilpancingo highway, until 10:25 hrs. the next day, when the Control, Command and Communications Center known as C-4 reported that a man had been fleeced.

The information was obtained from the military reports of the 27th. Battallion of Guerrero that the Ministry of National Defense declassified at the request of EL UNIVERSAL.

At 17:40 hours the Second Infantry Captain left to attend a speech of the chairwoman of National System for Family Development (DIF), María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, wife of the former mayor of Iguala. He returned at 18:15 hrs.

The first reference to the students was made in a report classified as urgent addressed to the 35th Military Zone of Chilpancingo. It stated that at 19:40 hours, about 40 students of the teachers training college of Ayotzinapa arrived at kilometer 127 on board a bus of the company Estrella de Oro. “They are peaceful, without any activity," the report stated.

From 20:00 to 20:50 hours it was reported that they arrived at the toll booth No. 3 on the road from Puente de Ixtla to Iguala, possibly to seize buses, unsuccessfully because no buses drove by. By 21:20 hours they arrived at the Estrella Blanca bus station, where they took a bus of the company Futura, number 2513, and then seized two more and left for the city downtown.

"Elements of the Municipal Police followed them in order to stop them from seizing the aforementioned buses. At the intersection of Melchor Ocampo and Hermenegildo Galeana, the students got off the buses and attacked police officers with stones, which responded to the aggression with firepower,” according to the Army.

The military report states that at approximately 22:30 hrs., hooded police officers dressed in black traveling in three police cars asked the students to get off the buses, and five minutes later they tried to force them to leave the buses.

At 23:20 a lieutenant of infantry, along with other elements, went to the General Hospital of Iguala to obtain information. In the report written upon his return he said that three people, apparently students, were admitted at the hospital with gunshot wounds.

At 00:30 hours of September 27, members of the Reaction Force, led by José Martínez Crespo, captain of the Second Infantry Battalion No. 27, patrolled the city and wrote in a report that two dead bodies were found at the intersection of Calle Juan N. Álvarez Periférico Norte, presumably teachers in training.

Later, 25 people were found at Cristina hospital, including one with a wounded upper lip, who told the soldiers that they studied at the Ayotzinapa teachers training college and that they had been attacked with guns when they were traveling in two buses. The students told captain Martínez Crespo that they would leave the hospital by their own means and assist their wounded classmate.

The staff of the Reaction Force led by Martínez Crespo returned to the military barracks at 5:55 hrs. on September 27.

At 10:25 hrs. he got a call from Iguala's C-4 center reporting the discovery of a dead body at Industrial neighborhood, that turned out to be another student of Ayotzinapa.