An explosion outside Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office injured police as protesters demonstrated ahead of the anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students.
1 / 2A police officer grimaces in pain as he is aided by paramedics after being injured by an explosive device thrown by protesters during clashes outside of Mexico's Attorney General's Office in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The demonstrators were marching ahead of the anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students of a teachers college in Iguala, Guerrero. Multiple police were injured by the explosion and loaded onto ambulances.
The protest was just one of a host of activities planned in advance of Monday’s 8th anniversary of the students' disappearances. Protests that includes relatives of the disappeared students have usually remained peaceful. Some masked protesters threw rocks and launched bottle rockets into police lines. Others spray painted areas around the building with demands for the missing students' safe return.“I was in the entrance to my store when four bombs went off like bottle rockets which is what they launched at the Attorney General's Office, toward the windows,” said 19-year-old Jose Rivera Cruz, who sells clothing to one side of the office. “There was smoke and they closed the metro bus station .
Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, who oversaw the original investigation into the disappearances, was arrested last month on charges of torture, official misconduct and forced disappearance. Last week, Mexico arrested a retired general, who had been in charge of the local army base in Iguala when the abductions occurred.
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