A vicious street fight between a gang of New York schoolgirls was caught on video as a baying mob urged on the violence.
The footage, filmed on a smartphone, is believed to show two pupils from a school in Queens being attacked by several older girls.
The shocking scenes show the girls throwing punches and kicking each other, pulling each others' hair and even wrestling on the ground as the crowd shouts encouragement.
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Fight: The video shows a girl with red hair being attacked (left) and dragged to the ground where she is kicked and punched (right)
Mob: Other girls join in the fight, kicking and punching her as she lay on the ground - urged on by a watching crowd of youngsters
One red-haired youngster is seen being dragged to the ground where two other girls appear to attack her.
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The girl suffers injuries to her face while other girls are seen filming the violence on their mobile phones.
'It's sad that the video shows a lot of kids encouraging the beating and other kids filming the beating, but no one trying to step in and stop the beating,' City Councilman Peter Vallone told the New York Daily News.
Mr Vallone reportedly contacted the police about the fight after contacts on Facebook told him about the video, although arrests have been made yet, according to the Daily News.The fight is believed to have started over a boy.