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Radical students in southern Mexico hijacked fuel tanker and two buses

Radical students in southern Mexico hijacked a fuel tanker truck and two buses Wednesday and later kidnapped four police officers to demand the release of about 10 students arrested over the vehicle thefts.

The events marked the latest chapter of violence at a rural teachers college where 43 students were kidnapped in 2014 and remain missing.

Students at the college have staged bus hijackings for years, and apparently stole the fuel tank Wednesday to gas up a fleet of hijacked passenger buses they are holding on the campus. They also hijacked a number of smaller trucks used to deliver bakery . . .

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