Nine migrants from Venezuela and Honduras escaped kidnapping in northern Mexico

Mexico City, May 17 (EFE).- Nine of the 50 migrants abducted in a bus that was detained in the state of San Luis Potosí by the alleged kidnappers managed to escape from their captors and were found by police officers. Government of the State of Nuevo Leon.

In a statement, the Secretariat of Public Security of Nuevo Leon (SSPNL) reported that seven of the nine migrants found were from Venezuela and two from Honduras.

The migrants were found at 73 kilometers of the Matehala-Saltillo highway in a rural area and their ages range from 18 to 35 years.

The agency reports that on Tuesday afternoon, agents of the civil forces found six men on the aforementioned highway asking for help, and later found three more migrants, who immediately disclosed the facts and told them that they belonged to a group of abductees.

This Wednesday, the person in charge of the Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office, Pedro Arche, told the media that in the state “only a bus with 50 migrants and two drivers was found” in addition to providing assistance. 9 migrants who escaped from kidnappers and were found on the highway.

Arce shared with the media that the passenger compartment’s GPS confirmed that the events took place in San Luis Potosí.

Later on Tuesday evening, the Attorney General’s Office in San Luis Potosí announced that 50 migrants had been illegally detained in the state of Nuevo Leon.

Arce confirmed that nine of the group of 50 abducted migrants, seven Venezuelans and two Hondurans, managed to escape from their captors and were helped in Nuevo Leon after they were located in the municipality of Dr. Arroyo, on the border of Nuevo Leon. San Luis Potosí.

This Wednesday, in his daily conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that the kidnapping of 50 migrants on Federal Highway 57, in Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, is underway.

To this end, he noted that the National Guard has launched an operation to locate the migrants, saying that these events may be linked to the kidnapping of 121 migrants that took place in early April in the same region.

Source: El Diario

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