HUIXTLA, Mexico, Sept 29 (Reuters) - 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.
The sect is estimated to consist of about 200 to 300 people and rejects the state of Israel.
Neither the DIF nor the office of Mexico's Attorney General's office responded to requests to comment on the case.
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