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Migrant Workers Brawl With Suspected Gang Members
3 Injured In Melee

POSTED: 4:27 pm PDT July 31, 2006
UPDATED: 5:56 pm PDT July 31, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- Migrant workers in North County dismantled a fence and fought back after one of them was robbed by a pair of suspected gang members.

Images: North County Melee

'They were out for blood," a witness told NBC 7/39. " They were out for beating the crap out of each other.

The trouble started at about 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Highland Center laundromat at the corner of Sante Fe Drive and Gardena Road in Encinitas.

Three people were injured in the all-out street fight between suspected gang members and migrant workers. The confrontation started when one of the migrant workers was robbed and decided to fight back. The robbers took the victim's wallet, said police, but the migrant worker got some friends and confronted the suspected gang members, who ran.

The migrant workers followed the robbers, and deputies said they quickly dismantled a wooden fence and used the pieces as clubs.

Area residents told NBC 7/39 that similar incidents are an ongoing problem in the neighborhood.

One of the suspected gang members has been released from the hospital, but the one is still hospitalized, as is an injured migrant worker.

Officials said that no one has been arrested in connection with the incident.