11 vanish from bar in suspected kidnap case

Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City’s Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, anguished relatives said. 

The apparent mass abduction purportedly happened sometime between 10 am and noon on Sunday morning just off the Paseo de la Reforma, the city’s main boulevard, near the US embassy. The incident was the second recent high-publicity blemish for the city’s largely unregulated entertainment scene, coming 20 days after the grandson of American civil rights activist Malcolm X was beaten to death at another tough bar in the area.