Fears are growing for 43 students who vanished after shootings in Mexico that left six people dead and 25 wounded.
Some 57 students initially disappeared following a bout of violence in the town of Iguala in one of the country's poorest states last Friday and Saturday - but 14 have since turned up alive.
In one of the incidents, municipal police opened fire on three buses seized by the radical students, who are known to hijack buses, and had taken them to go home after a fundraising drive. Three students were killed.
Survivors - some of whom are under armed guard in hospital - have claimed local police officers took away dozens of students in police cruisers and they have not been seen since, AFP reported.
Prosecutors said they were able to connect 22 officers who were detained to the six killings after ballistics tests linked their weapons to the shootings.
The officers are being investigated over the disappearances amid concerns the violence in one of Mexico's poorest states could be linked to organised crime, said state prosecutor Inaky Blanco.
"Unfortunately most of Iguala's municipal police officers have links with organised crime," said Governor Angel Aguirre following reports unidentified masked gunmen were involved in some of the shootings.
He said street surveillance cameras captured officers taking away an unspecified number of students.
Francisco Ochoa, 18, told AFP he was among 14 students who managed to escape from a fourth bus stopped by police.
The group fled after the officers began to shoot in the air, he said. After hiding on the hills and other parts of town, they found other comrades in a marketplace.
"More patrol cars arrived from the right and the left, 12 to 13 of them," he said.
"I saw with my own eyes how they took away my comrades. I saw how they put 30-40 of them in patrol cars," he said at a wake attended by hundreds of people at the Raul Isidro teacher training school in Tixtla.
Ramon Navarette, president of Guerrero's Human Rights Commission, raised hopes the 43 missing may still be alive, saying they could be hiding like the 14 students who reappeared.
"This tactic of dispersing to avoid harm or arrest is very frequent," he said.
Witnesses described a night of terror in Iguala.
Aureliano Garca Ceron, a 35-year-old taxi driver, had two passengers in his car in the early hours of Saturday when shots suddenly rang out.
"All I could see were the sparks of the guns," he said as he recovered from a broken leg shattered by a bullet.
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