{"id":18871,"date":"2024-01-04T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/31-migrants-rescued-after-kidnapping-near-texas-border-mexican-authorities-say\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:53:19","slug":"31-migrants-rescued-after-kidnapping-near-texas-border-mexican-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/31-migrants-rescued-after-kidnapping-near-texas-border-mexican-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"31 migrants rescued after kidnapping near Texas border, Mexican authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thirty-one migrants have been rescued in Mexico after a group of armed and masked gunmen kidnapped them from a bus traveling to the border with Texas over the weekend, Mexican authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Presidential spokesman Jes\u00fas Ram\u00edrez said in a post on X that the army and national guard helped carry out the rescue operation. He said the migrants were under the care of authorities and undergoing medical examinations.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s Interior Secretary Luisa Alcalde also confirmed the rescue, without giving further details about how or where the rescue operation occurred.<\/p>\n

Officials did not immediately provide any details about the armed group that carried out the abduction or about the rescued migrants.<\/p>\n

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Some of the migrants who were kidnapped in Tamaulipas state in northern Mexico are seen after authorities rescued them on Wednesday.<\/span> (Jes\u00fas Ram\u00edrez Cuevas \/ Mexico Presidency)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The bus carrying 36 people was intercepted near Rio Bravo on Saturday on the highway that connects the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, which sits across from\u00a0Brownsville, Texas,\u00a0Federal Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodr\u00edguez said earlier Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The 31 abducted migrants were aboard a bus traveling toward the border with Texas.<\/span> (Jes\u00fas Ram\u00edrez Cuevas \/ Mexico Presidency)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The armed group forced all the migrants off the bus and abducted 31 of them in five vehicles, Rodr\u00edguez said. The abducted migrants were from Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras and Mexico.<\/p>\n

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The search for the kidnapped migrants included tracking their cell phones, reviewing surveillance video from the bus and an air search of the area via helicopter, Rodr\u00edguez said.<\/p>\n

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Mexican authorities are seen outside a bus in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.<\/span> (Jes\u00fas Ram\u00edrez Cuevas \/ Mexico Presidency)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Organized crime groups\u00a0that control the border area\u00a0regularly kidnap migrants\u00a0to hold them for ransom, with large abductions previously occurring in Tamaulipas state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In March 2019, 22 people were taken from a bus and not seen again. The\u00a0Zetas cartel\u00a0also massacred 72 Central American migrants\u00a0who had been taken off buses near San Fernando, Tamaulipas in 2010.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n

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