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Mexico City detains 226 after mob violence
Police held 226 mostly minors for questioning after what appeared to be one of Mexico’s first instances of flash mob violence. Ninety-one youth were let go during the day for lack of evidence, while the others remained in custody.
The use of social networks is growing in Mexico, but the country had largely escaped the kind of rapidly formed, fast-moving youth mobs seen in Europe and the United States before the outbreak of violence in the capital on Sunday.
Police held 226 mostly minors for questioning after what appeared to be one of Mexico’s first instances of flash mob violence. Ninety-one youth were let go during the day for lack of evidence, while the others remained in custody.
The use of social networks is growing in Mexico, but the country had largely escaped the kind of rapidly formed, fast-moving youth mobs seen in Europe and the United States before the outbreak of violence in the capital on Sunday.
