Police officers burned alive

TWO police officers have been burned alive by a mob of furious residents after the officers were mistaken for child kidnappers.

Police officers burned alive

The crowd, angered by recent kidnappings at a school in Mexico City’s south-eastern outskirts,cornered the officers taking photos of children leaving the building.

Officials said two agents died and one was being treated in hospital. Federal police director Jose Luis Figueroa said the three agents, none wearing uniforms, had headed to the San Juan Ixtlayopan neighbourhood in an unmarked car as part of an operation against drug-dealing.

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