MEXICO CITY: Clowns from across Latin America meeting at an annual convention this week in Mexico City took a break from comedy to deliver a serious message: “We are clowns, not killers!”

Some 200 of them in full clown suits and makeup chanted those words as they took a group picture outside a theater on Wednesday to counter the “creepy clown” craze that has swept across the United States, Europe and now Mexico.

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