MEXICO CITY, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Protesters set fire to the door of a historical Mexican government palace this weekend after evidence surfaced that 43 students were killed by a Mexican gang, with police cooperation.
The students went missing in September while they were traveling to the city of Iguala to protest lack of funding for their school and ended up hijacking four buses while planning to return home.
Local police attacked the students on Sept. 26 in Iguala, and the students were not seen again. A video from the Mexican Attorney General's office, obtained by the Fusion network, shows confessions of three members of the Guerreros Unidos gang, who say they received the students from the police, killed them and burned them in a dump.
It has been alleged that the mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, is aligned with the gang, and he and his wife have been arrested. Parents of the missing students are waiting on DNA evidence to confirm the statements made in the video.
Protests over the incident had been relatively peaceful until they people began tearing down fences around the historical building and burning the door with Molotov cocktails. Riot police responded aggressively to the scene.
