A brazen mass kidnapping rocked Mexico City on Sunday afternoon. Eleven young people disappeared in what appears to be a Mexico mass kidnapping. Mexico City authorities are investigating the suspected abduction that happened in broad daylight in a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs. Eleven young people are missing, including four women and a minor.

"Heaven," a popular after-hours bar, was hit by gunmen in Mexico. The mass kidnapping happened at an in Mexico City's Zona Rosa District. Reports say gunmen came into the trendy nightspot to rob the customers, but took them instead.

A Mexico City official said, "At first, it appeared that their goal was not to take the youths, but to rob them, however, they took them in the end." said a Mexico City official.

The victims are reported to have come from the capital's neighborhood Tepito. Families of the victims have filed criminal complaints with prosecutors. Mexico City authorities said they received 11 missing-person reports, but the mother of one of the victims said Tepito residents believe as 15 or 16 people could have been abducted.

Mexican newspapers reported that an armed man forced the young people to climb into sport utility vehicles which had the police's insignia.

The incident occurred between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday just off the city’s main boulevard, the Paseo de la Reforma. The bar is about a block and a half away from the U.S. Embassy, near the Angel of Independence monument.

The abduction is the second high-publicity incident that has tainted the city's largely unregulated entertainment scene. Twenty days before the kidnapping, the grandson of American civil rights activist Malcolm X was beaten to death at another bar in the downtown area. Malcolm Shabazz died May 9 after a fight that erupted at a bar near Plaza Garibaldi. Two waiters at the bar were arrested in connection with Shabazz's death.

On Thursday morning, members of the victims’ families members marched from the Interior Department building to the Zocalo, the city's main square to call for authorities to find their loved ones. The protesters gathered outside the bar, which bears a sign that reads Bicentenario Restaurante-Bar, to demand access to the bar's surveillance video.

Josefina Garcia, mother of Said Sanchez Garcia, 19, said her son worked at a market stall selling beauty products and wasn't involved in any criminal activity. She said, “How could so many people have disappeared, just like that, in broad daylight? The police say they don't have them, so what, the earth just opened up and swallowed them?"

Mass abductions are rare in Mexico City, but have become commonplace in areas where drug cartels operate and where rival gangs fight over territory. Residents of tough southern town said there has been a wave of abductions of neighborhood young people in recent months. They suspect that the kidnappings could be related to organized crime activities. Tepito is the center of black market activities in the city. Guns, drugs, stolen goods and contraband are widely sold.

Prosecutors say there are no clear motives in the attack.