A Day of the Dead altar set up for the missing students at the Ayotzinapa campus. (Photo by Hans-Maximo Musielik)
(Graphic by Francisco Gomez)
Students had hijacked the two buses the week before in what has become a common practice at a school. On the night of the attacks, students say, only first- and second-year Ayotzinapa students left the campus aboard the buses. The students told VICE News that they intended to eventually commandeer 20 buses in total that would be used to transport them and students from other parts of Mexico to the annual march commemorating the October 1968 student massacre at the Tlatelolco plaza in Mexico City.'El Choky and his hitmen blocked them, and then made them exit the buses. One of the students resisted, and that's when the shootout occurred.'
Ayotzinapa students frequently cover their faces and occupy highway toll booths in Guerrero. (Photo by Hans-Maximo Musielik)
Students are forced to sleep on the floor at the Raul Isidro Burgos campus at Ayotzinapa. (Photo by Hans-Maximo Musielik)
The parents of the missing students keeping vigil at the school. (Photo by Hans-Maximo Musielik)
Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam (in white shirt) stands inside a Chilpancingo airport hangar where he told the parents of the missing about the incident at the Cocula dump. (Photo by Hans-Maximo Musielik)