Mexico's attorney general says they now have concrete proof showing 43 college students who disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero in September are dead.

This is the first time Mexican authorities declared all of the students dead.

Jesus Karam says they're now working with evidence showing the students were murdered, and their bodies burned.

He says they've come to this conclusion after nearly 100 interviews, including members of the drug cartel who did the killing after the students were handed over to them by local police.

"These and many other elements retrieved during the investigation allowed us to generate a logical, reasonable analysis and conclude, without a doubt, that the teachers' college students were deprived of their freedom, killed, incinerated and thrown into the San Juan river, in that order. This is the historical truth of the facts."

However, many of the families of the students are still refusing to believe the government.

So far the remains of only one student have been identified.

The students disappeared while on their way to protest at a political rally being held by a local mayor in Guerrero.

The mayor and his wife are now facing charges they ordered local police to break up the planned demonstration before it began.

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