CHILPANCINGO, Mexico: Mexican authorities scrambled Wednesday to find 43 missing students after concluding they were not in a mass grave containing 28 bodies in a case that has vexed the country.

While news that the aspiring teachers were not in the burial pits brought some relief, officials still had no clue where the students could be, and they now had 28 new unknown victims on their hands.

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