An angry crowd in central attacked police and helped nearly three dozen illegal Central American immigrants escape from custody after hearing that officers had allegedly sold the migrants to human smugglers, officials said on Monday.

Hundreds of people attacked police as they were trying to load the 34 immigrants into a van on Sunday in the farming town of Rafael Lara Grajales, Puebla, state prosecutor Rodolfo Igor Archundia said.

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