﻿ Mexican mob burns federal agents alive - Taipei Times Thu, Nov
25, 2004 - Page 6　News List  Mexican mob burns federal agents
alive   In this image from television, Victor Mireles Barrera,
who identified himself as one of three federal police officers,
who were attacked by an angry mob in Mexico City's outskirts
Tuesday. Speaking into the cameras before the burning, Barrera
said they were federal anti-terrorism agents who had been sent
to the area on official business.   A crowd of people angry
about recent kidnappings at a local school cornered federal
agents taking photos of students leaving the building and burned
the officers alive on Tuesday in Mexico City's southeastern
outskirts, the latest example of mob justice in a country beset
by corrupt police and high crimes rates.  Officials said two
agents were dead, and one was being treated at a local hospital.
Federal police director Jose Luis Figueroa told local television
stations that the three agents, none wearing uniforms, had
headed to the San Juan I