Mexico City detains 120 in flash mob violence

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico City are reporting they have detained about 120 youths in what appears to have been one of Mexico's first instances of flash mob violence.

While the use of social networks is growing in Mexico, the country had largely escaped the kind of rapidly formed, fast-moving youth mobs seen in Europe and the United States.

City police chief Manuel Mondragon said Monday that two young men had called on other people to gather for a concert of reggaeton music, but hundreds more people showed up than could fit into the bar where it was being held.

Mondragon said angry youths who couldn't get in to the Sunday concert went on a rampage at local subway stations, damaging turnstiles and streetlamps, robbing people and tossing fireworks.