Violent clashes between police and students in Guerrero, Mexico, leave 21 injured

*The clashes between students, teachers and police in the Mexican state of Guerrero intensified. Both police and protesters are among the injured. VL

By Associated Press/Fox News Latino

Clashes between federal police in Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero in southern Mexico, and protesters left at least 21 injured and several vehicles burning on Sunday.

The demonstrators were mainly students and teachers from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college where the 43 students who went missing in late September attended. They were mounting a concert to express solidarity with the missing students and their families.

A federal police official who requested anonymity told the Associated Press that officers were assaulted repeatedly by professors from CETEG, the Guerrero educational worker trade union, at dawn.

In total, the official said, eight policemen were injured, five of them run over by a van and three hurt when teachers tried to restrain them. One of the latter, has “severe brain damage” and had to be transferred to Mexico City. The officers who were struck by the van were also hospitalized.

For its part, Tlachinollan, the human rights organization that has been aiding the families of the 43 students, said in a statement that the clashes left at least 13 civilians wounded.

Among them students, teachers, two parents of the missing—one of whom was hospitalized—and two journalists, including a photographer for the Associated Press.

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