 On November 23, 2004, in the Tlahuac lynching, three Mexican undercover federal agents investigating a narcotics-related crime were lynched in the town of San Juan Ixtayopan (Mexico City) by an angry crowd who saw them taking photographs and suspected that they were trying to abduct children from a primary school.The agents immediately identified themselves but they were held and beaten for several hours before two of them were killed and set on fire.The incident was covered by the media almost from the beginning, including their pleas for help and their murder.