The remains of six bodies found in Guerrero may shed some light on the disappearance of 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in September 2014, according to an article by Mexico News Daily.

Speaking to reporters outside the National Palace in Mexico City after meeting with relatives of the victims on Thursday, Deputy Interior Minister for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said that the remains were delivered to forensic investigators at the University of Innsbruck, Austria on Monday.

According to Encinas, the remains of three of the bodies were found in a ravine located on community-owned land in the municipality of Cocula, while the other remains were found near the city of Iguala in an area known as Jesús de Nazaret.

The students went missing in Iguala on September 26, 2014, after buses they had commandeered to travel to a protest in Mexico City were ambushed by municipal police.

According to the former federal government's version of events, the students were killed by members of the Guerreros Unidos gang after they were handed over to them by corrupt municipal police.

The statement also claimed that Guerreros Unidos who allegedly mistook the students as members of a rival gang, burned their bodies after killing them in the Cocula municipal dump, then scattered the ashes in a nearby river.

As a result of new investigations conducted by the Federal Attorney General's Office (FGR) collapses the so-called "historical truth," Encinas said on Thursday. He added that the previous government's version of events was built on "torture and simulation."

While the government has rejected the former administration's version of events, President Lopez Obrador has not offered his own alternative conclusion even after 15 months in office.

Apart from the remains sent to the University of Innsbruck - whom researchers previously identified two of the missing students after conducting DNA testing on bone fragments - Encinas said that authorities also discovered remains in a cave contaminated by bat feces. The findings will also be subject to analysis, he said.

Although the deputy minister said there is no definite date as to when results will be available, he assured the public that the government will announce the findings as soon as results arrive.

Vidulfo Rosales, a lawyer for the students' families, said that since criminal cases related to the students' disappearance are currently being heard by several courts, each of the case is subject to the courts' respective criteria.

"All it does is delay access to justice for the mothers and fathers," he said.

For their part, the parents asked Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero to investigate the Federal Police and municipal police from Huitzuco, Guerrero, which borders Iguala, for the crimes of forced disappearance and torture.

Two days after he was sworn in as president in December 2018, López Obrador signed a decree to create a super commission who will hold a new investigation into the Ayotzinapa case and has pledged that his government will not rest until they find the bodies of the missing students.

Since 2014, the number of homicides in the country has been increasing, according to a report by Latin Post.

Based on the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) data, the number of people killed in 2018 was more than four times that in 2007.

Moreover, the figures for the first nine months of 2019 suggest that this year's homicide rate could surpass that of last year.

As of January 2019 data, there have been 40,000 people reported missing in Mexico since 2006, including the students from Ayotzinapa.