Protesters set government building on fire in Mexico's Guerrero state

In Mexico's Guerrero state, protesters set fire to a government building, demanding answers regarding 43 students who have been missing since they were taken into custody in 2014.

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Protesters set government building on fire in Mexico's Guerrero state

According to local media reports, student protesters arrived at the state government building in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, in four buses.

The demonstrators, who set the building on fire using fireworks, demanded that the fate of the 43 students who have been missing since 2014 be clarified.

The student protesters also set fire to approximately 12 vehicles in the parking lot.

On the other hand, the students were also protesting the killing of a student by police, who was returning home from a demonstration held in the capital, Mexico City, in March. Authorities stated that the protesters were not detained and left the area shortly after the incident.

On March 6 in Mexico, dozens of demonstrators protesting the disappearance of the 43 students had broken down the door of the National Palace with a truck during President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily press conference.

43 STUDENTS HAVE BEEN MISSING SINCE 2014

In the city of Iguala in Guerrero state, a clash broke out on September 26, 2014, between students protesting teachers' working conditions and the police. In the clash, 6 people died and 25 were injured after police opened fire on vehicles carrying students. Following the clashes, 43 students disappeared after being forced into vehicles.

The previous government had announced that the students were killed by members of a drug cartel to whom they were handed over by the police, and that their bodies were burned in a landfill in the city of Cocula.

International experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, affiliated with the Organization of American States, argued that the scenario announced by the government could not be true and reported that there were serious gaps in the investigation.

The experts pointed out that a fire of a size that would turn human bodies into ash could not have been lit in the landfill.

News Source: AA