Retired Mexican general arrested over disappearance of 43 students in 2014

Ex-officer was head of army base in Iguala when students were abducted in what a report called a state crime'

Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and two other members of the army for alleged links to the disappearance of 43 students in the south of the country in 2014.

The assistant public safety secretary, Ricardo Mejia, said that among those arrested was the former officer who commanded the army base in the Guerrero state city of Iguala in September 2014, when the students from a radical teachers' college were abducted.