President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was inside the building giving a press conference at the time.

A group of protesters in Mexico City have driven a pickup truck through a door to the country’s presidential palace.

They were met by police officers, who used tear gas on the protesters.

The group were protesting the 2014 mass disappearance a group of 43 Mexican students. A commission set up to investigate the case later described it as “a crime of the state”.