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Reuters
Reuters
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By Jose Torres

Jewish sect in Mexico escape from detention after police raid

Members of the fundamentalist Jewish sect Lev Tahor, whose members are suspected of a string of serious crimes, stand on a road with an injured child, after escaping from a detention center where they were being held following a raid, in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Torres

A group of about 20 members of a fundamentalist Jewish sect escaped from a Mexican detention center in the southern state of Chiapas on Wednesday night, according to a Reuters reporter who filmed the incident.

The group were being held by Mexico's National System for Integral Family Development, or DIF, following a raid by Mexican police on Friday that targeted Lev Tahor - a strict Jewish sect that practices arranged marriages and full-body coverings for girls as young as three.

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