[News] Mexican agents find 113 immigrants who were kidnapped by an organization in the state of Sonora

[FNX Magokiler]

A total of 113 migrants, from 13 countries in Latin America and Asia, who were deprived of their liberty in a safe house in the city of San Luis Río Colorado, near the Mexico-United States border, were located this afternoon, they reported. state authorities. In addition, five people were arrested at the location for their probable responsibility in the crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty and extortion to the detriment of migrants and their families.

In a statement, the Sonora State Attorney General's Office reported that, derived from the investigation into the kidnapping of 10 members of a family of migrants from Colombia, denounced on Friday, security and ministerial agencies managed to locate the 113 migrants. Among the kidnapped migrants were children, women and men, from countries such as Ecuador (29), Colombia (12), Brazil (12), Peru (12), El Salvador (11), Cuba (8), Honduras (7) and the Dominican Republic (4). In addition, migrants from Afghanistan (7), India (6), Nepal (2), Bangladesh (1), as well as the United States (2). Anti-kidnapping agents from the Criminal Investigation Ministerial Agency (Amic) and the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), the National Guard, the State Public Security Police (PESP) and the San Luis Municipal Police participated in the operation, who led to out the location of the place of captivity and the discovery of the people.

 

 

The Justice Prosecutor's Office reported that the victims, upon seeing the presence of police, military and National Guard agents, were happy and applauded their intervention, as well as praying religious prayers. The hostages were confined against their will in a house in the El Mezquite neighborhood (neighborhood), in San Luis Río Colorado, where they had been living for several days and in overcrowded conditions. The migrants were transferred to the Municipal Police Academy, where they received medical attention and accompaniment. On Friday, authorities reported that 10 migrants from Colombia who were kidnapped in the state of Sonora, when they were about to cross into Arizona, United States, were located and released safely. The kidnapping of the Colombians occurred on the Sonoyta-San Luis Río Colorado highway, in Sonora, on May 2, when they were traveling to the United States to request asylum.

After their disappearance, security and ministerial agencies from Sonora began a search operation in the region, on the border with the United States, after the Colombian Consulate and the organization 1800migrante.com denounced the kidnapping at the request of one of the relatives of the Kidnapped Colombians. San Luis Río Colorado is a city in the state of Sonora, on the border with the United States, a place where thousands of migrants arrive throughout the year seeking to cross illegally into the states of Arizona or California.

 

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