Mexican missing-student activist killed in Guerrero state

A Mexican community activist who helped families search for their missing relatives has been killed. 

Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco's body was found near his home in a town in the south-western state of Guerrero. 

He led search parties after the disappearance of 43 students in the nearby town of Iguala last year and threw light on hundreds of other missing people. 

Guerrero is a region plagued by gang and drug violence. 

At least 15 people were killed there over the weekend. 

Mr Jimenez Blanco's body was found in the taxi he owned. 

He had been part of an organisation which had supported the search for the students in the hills around Iguala. 

Blanco also helped dig up a number of graves of murdered people that were found during the search for the students.

BBC