\n A student was killed in a confrontation with police in southern Mexico, authorities said Friday, as tensions flared over the case of 43 students from the same college who disappeared nearly a decade ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n A second student from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college was wounded in the incident on Thursday night in Guerrero, the circumstances of which were disputed.\n<\/p>\n
\n President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters that the pair were traveling in a stolen car when police ordered them to stop near the entrance to the state capital Chilpancingo.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The police say that the young men opened fire, the police responded and unfortunately a young man lost his life,\" Lopez Obrador said, adding that the second person was not seriously hurt.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"It wasn't a clash between police and protesters,\" he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the Guerrero public security secretariat, a firearm was found in the vehicle.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Clemente Rodriguez, father of one of the 43 students who disappeared in 2014, rejected the official version and said that the two men were unarmed.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said that security camera footage showed them taking cover behind a vehicle while police shot at them.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"You see in the video the young men are hiding and protecting themselves from the police aggression,\" Rodriguez told local radio station Grupo Formula.\n<\/p>\n
\n After the incident, students from Ayotzinapa went to protest in Chilpancingo, allegedly setting fire to at least one vehicle.\n<\/p>\n
\n The shooting took place a day after protesters smashed open a door to Mexico's presidential palace demanding to meet Lopez Obrador to discuss the case of the 43 students -- one of the country's worst human rights atrocities.\n<\/p>\n
\n The students had commandeered buses to travel to a demonstration in Mexico City -- a common practice in their radical left-wing school.\n<\/p>\n
\n Investigators believe they were kidnapped by a drug cartel in collusion with corrupt police, although exactly what happened to them is unclear.\n<\/p>\n
\n In 2022, a truth commission set up by the government branded the case a \"state crime\" and said the military shared responsibility, either directly or through negligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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