14 of 57 Missing Mexican Students Found Alive After Shootings in Guerrero State Agence France-Presse
go to original October 1, 2014

Students protest in demand of justice for the deaths of six people including students of Ayotzinapa and football players of the team "Los Avispones" in Iguala, Guerrero state, Mexico, on September 29, 2014, following recent clashes that led to at least six deaths. (Pedro Pardo/AFP)

IGUALA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA, Mexico – Fourteen of 57 students who vanished after deadly shootings in southern Mexico have turned up alive but relatives feared for those still missing as authorities search for them.

A dozen troops manned a checkpoint Tuesday, September 30, between Guerrero's state capital, Chilpancingo, and the town of Iguala, stopping cars and checking IDs against a list of the missing students from a teacher training college.

The students disappeared following a bout of violence in Iguala late Friday and Saturday (September 26 and 27) that left 6 people dead and 25 wounded in different parts of the municipality.

In one of the incidents, municipal police opened fire on three buses seized by the radical students, who are known to hijack buses and had taken them to go home after a fundraising drive in Iguala.

Three students were killed. A survivor told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday that he saw officers take away 30 to 40 students in several police cruisers and they have yet to be found.

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