Relatives of 43 missing Mexican students have marched in the town of Tixtla in southern Guerrero state, refusing to accept the government’s claim that their loved ones are probably dead.<br /><br />Authorities say suspected gang members admitted killing and incinerating the trainee teachers, claiming they had been handed over by corrupt police.<br /><br />But Teresa Mateco, a mother of one of the missing students, is not convinced.<br /><br />“We want proof,” she said, her voice full of emotion, as she marched alongside others carrying photographs of the missing students. <br /><br />“While there is no proof, our children are alive. We know they are alive. ...but we want to know where they are and the government knows that.”<br /><br />Amid mass marches and rising anger, relatives and classmates of the students have begun a nationwide bus tour to keep pressure on the government which says remains found are so badly burned that it is impossible to say when and if they will be identified.<br /><br />A search meanwhile continues for the students seized seven weeks ago after clashes with police in the southwestern city of Iguala. <br /><br />Its mayor has been arrested along with his wife, both suspected of masterminding the abduction.
