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"The mob was reportedly incensed after another car driven by a Sudanese youth ran over and killed a 35-year-old local".What does this sentence means?Here what the author wants to convey us?

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In the sentence:

The mob was reportedly incensed after another car driven by a Sudanese youth ran over and killed a 35-year-old local.

after is a conjunction, and we have two clauses:

1) The mob was reportedly incensed
2) another car driven by a Sudanese youth ran over and killed a 35-year-old local

The sentence says that 2) happened first. The word another suggests that this car is not the only car in the news. According to the sentence, a car ran over and killed a local, and this car was driven by a Sudanese youth.

The sentence states that: 1) happened after 2).

As to Does the sentence mean that the car ran over the mob?, the answer is no. But the way it's written doesn't rule out the possibility that the 35-year-old local was in the mob, even though that would be unlikely, and the sentence doesn't seem to try to suggest that the 35-year-old local was in the mob.

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