2 Detectives Found Safe After Disappearing While Looking Into Mexico’s 2014 Case of Missing Students

Cars burn at the state's Attorney General's Office after students set them on fire to protest the shooting of one of their colleagues during a confrontation with police in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on March 12, 2024. Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP Photo

MEXICO CITY—Two federal detectives have been found unharmed after they went missing in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero while investigating the disappearances of 43 students almost 10 years ago.

Officials did not say Tuesday how the man and woman were found or whether they had been freed from captivity.