Six of 43 missing Mexican students were kept alive in warehouse for days

Students were then turned over to commander of the local army base who ordered their killings

Six of the 43 Mexican students forcibly disappeared in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days, and then turned over to the commander of the local army base who ordered their killings, the Mexican government official leading the Truth Commission said Friday.

The interior undersecretary, Alejandro Encinas, made the revelation with little fanfare during a lengthy defense of the commission's report, first released a week earlier. At that time, despite declaring the disappearances a state crime" and saying that the army watched it happen without intervening, Encinas made no mention of six students being turned over to Col Jose Rodriguez Perez.