Protesters March on Chilpancingo-Acapulco Highway to Demand Answers on Missing Students Agence France-Presse
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Relatives and fellow students block the Chilpancingo-Acapulco highway during a protest to demand justice and an explanation about 43 missing students, in Chilpancingo, Mexico, October 2, 2014 (AFP/Yuri Cortez)

CHILPANCINGO - Thousands of protesters blocked the highway leading to Acapulco in southern Mexico on Thursday to press authorities to find 43 students missing since a deadly police shooting last weekend.

The demonstration was part of commemorations of a 1968 massacre of students by the army in Mexico City but the protesters focused on the fate of the disappeared in violence-plagued Guerrero state.

Parents of the missing led the march in the state capital Chilpancingo, holding signs saying "they were taken alive, we want them back."

The students, from a teacher training college near Chilpancingo, had gone to the town of Iguala 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the north last Friday to raise funds when they were shot at by municipal police after they hijacked buses to return home.

Three students were killed and witnesses said they saw dozens taken away in police cars.

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