Govt 'blocks killing probe'

An international human rights body said on Monday that Mexico's government denied it interviews with military personnel in the case of 43 students who were abducted and apparently massacred last year.

A team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is part of the Organization of American States, began investigating the case in March at the request of victims' families, with the agreement of the government.

But in a news conference on Monday they said that they had not been allowed to speak to military personnel from the 27th infantry battalion, based in the southwestern city of Iguala, where the students disappeared.