ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Fury is erupting in Mexico over the disappearance of 43 young people believed to have been abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.

On Monday, hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in Guerrero state. The protesters called for the 43 students from a rural teachers’ college to be returned alive, although there are fears that 10 newly discovered mass graves could contain their bodies.

A spokesman for Guerrero’s government says the protesting members of a teachers’ union blockaded the capital building attacking it with battle bars, rocks and Molotov cocktails.

Monday’s violence came more than two weeks after police in Iguala opened fire on students at the teachers college, killing at least six. Dozens of other students were taken away from police and haven’t been seen since.

Twenty-six local police officers are being detained.

Police say Monday’s protests came after police in Guerrero shot and wounded a German university student in a reported case of mistaken identity.

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