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Protestors storm Mexico’s presidential palace over missing students

Photo: PAP/EPA/Isaac Esquivel.
Photo: PAP/EPA/Isaac Esquivel.
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Protestors, rallying against the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014, knocked down the door to the country’s presidential palace - visuals captured by local media stations showed on Wednesday.

Video footage revealed the demonstrators employing a white pickup truck from Mexico’s state electrical company to ram down the door while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was delivering his daily press conference inside. According to El Universal newspaper, police used tear gas to disperse the protesters and set up barriers within the palace to prevent any further intrusion.

While it remained unclear if any protesters still occupied the palace, local media indicated that some individuals involved had been arrested.

When questioned about the incident, President López Obrador stated that he harbored no intentions of suppressing the protest. He reassured that his government would persist in investigating the case of the missing students, who vanished in one of the country’s most notorious violent incidents.
Source: Reuters
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