Authorities have found mass graves with the charred remains of up to 20 people in the restive southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
It comes as police searched the area for nearly four dozen missing students.
The identities of the dead were not immediately clear, officials said.
Forty-three students disappeared last weekend after Iguala municipal officers shot at buses that the group had seized to return home near the state capital, Chilpancingo.
Three students were killed. Another three people died when police and suspected gang members shot at another bus carrying football players on the outskirts of town.
Witnesses said that the officers took away several students in patrol cars after last week's shooting.
The officers are suspected of having links to criminal gangs, which had raised fears about the students' fate in a country where drug cartels often bury their victims in mass graves.
The remains were found in six fresh graves on a hillside on the outskirts of the town of Iguala, a local official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Iguala is almost 200km south of Mexico City in the increasingly violent state of Guerrero.
Twenty-two police officers were arrested in Guerrero, accused of killing two students during the clashes last week.
Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre said yesterday that a total of 30 individuals have now been detained in connection with the incidents.
Several hundred students protested last night in front of Aguirre's residence in the state capital of Chilpancingo, expressing anger that some of their classmates may be among the bodies found in the graves.
A car was overturned and several petrol bombs were hurled at the residence perimeter, where security outposts were lightly damaged.
Guerrero Attorney General Inaky Blanco told reporters in Iguala that the remains would be sent to Mexico's forensic service to determine whether or not the corpses were those of the missing students.
He declined to say how many graves or corpses had been found.
"In the next few hours we will determine the cause of death and the number of bodies," a spokesman for the state attorney general's office said.
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