A woman poses during a protest for the 43 students of the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa that went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]

Protests continued on Saturday in Mexico City even after two officials confirmed that at least one of 43 college students missing since September 26 had been identified among charred remains found near a rubbish dump.

The two could not provide more details on how many of the students might have been identified.

They agreed to speak only if granted anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

A family member of a missing student told The Associated Press that the remains were of Alexander Mora.

The families were given that information late on Friday by an Argentine team of forensic experts working on behalf of the relatives and with the Attorney General's Office, said the relative, who also would speak only on condition of anonymity.

At a rally held in Mexico City on Saturday, the father of one of the missing students said that the identification does not mean that the students' parents "will sit and cry" and wait for the others to be identified.

"We will keep fighting until we find the other 42 missing students alive," said Felipe de la Cruz.

The students went missing on September 26 after confrontations with police in Iguala, in southern Guerrero state, that killed three students and three bystanders.

The Mexican government has said gang members killed and incinerated the students after police intercepted them on the mayor's orders and turned them over to the criminal group Guerreros Unidos.

Detainees have told officials that they burned the 43 bodies at a dump site and bagged and scattered their ashes in a river.

Authorities have detained more than 70 people in the case.

The fragments found near a rubbish dump in the city of Cocula were sent to the University of Innsbruck in Austria, which was recommended by the Argentine forensic team as having one of the most experienced laboratories for identifying deteriorated remains.

The identification presumably came from there, but officials would not confirm that, and members of the Argentine team could not be reached on Saturday.

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