Classmates of Missing Mexican Students Storm Guerrero State Capitol Agencia EFE
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Some 3,000 students, teachers and family members of the missing young people marched to the legislative building in Chilpancingo, capital of the Mexican state of Guerrero, to demand the safe return of more than 50 college students who disappeared last Friday. (EFE)

CNNMexico Update: The Guerrero state prosecutor, Iñaky Banco, reported Tuesday that of the 22 police arrested for the attack on the Ayotzinapa normal school students, 16 tested positive for rhodizonate sodium, ie, they had fired a gun.

CHILPANCINGO - Classmates of more than 50 college students who went missing over the weekend in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero pelted the state capitol with rocks on Monday and demanded the resignation of Gov. Angel Aguirre.

Some 3,000 students, teachers and family members of the missing young people marched peacefully to the legislative building in Chilpancingo, Guerrero's capital.

But during a protest in front of the capitol, youths wearing hoods broke through the security barriers and hurled rocks at the building, destroying the glass facade. Police did not intervene.

The protesters demanded justice for six people killed last Friday night in the town of Iguala, including three students from the Ayotzinapa Normal Rural teachers college.

They also demanded the safe return of their Ayotzinapa classmates, who remain missing after the violence of last Friday.

Administrators at Ayotzinapa Normal said 56 students were missing, while the state government put the number at 57.

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Mexican prosecutors are investigating whether local police officers were involved in the disappearance of 57 students who vanished after deadly incidents in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico. (Agence France-Presse)

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