Protests, pipe bombs in Mexico

An explosion occurred outside Mexico’s Attorney General’s office yesterday, injuring police as protesters demonstrating ahead of the anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students clashed with officers clad in riot gear. Members of a bomb squad cordoned off the area. One undetonated object that an explosives technician recovered appeared to be a small pipe bomb — a tube with two capped ends. Mexico City’s police department said that 11 police officers were injured by shrapnel from fireworks and some were left with bruises. They were all taken to hospitals and the injuries were not considered lifethreatening.