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Equipped group abducts 14 security ministry personnel in Mexico

ByRomeo Minalane

Jul 4, 2023
Equipped group abducts 14 security ministry personnel in Mexico

The group, all guys who operated in administration in a police headquarters, were taken from a highway in Chiapas.

Security forces in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are looking for 14 administrative workers of the state security ministry abducted by members of an armed group.

The event occurred on Tuesday, about 34.4 km (22 miles) west of the state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez, on the highway linking it to the town of Ocozocoautla.

Those abducted were all guys and operated in administration in a police headquarters, the state security firm stated in a declaration.

“Nothing like this has actually ever taken place,” a ministry representative informed the Reuters news firm, including that the intention for the kidnapping was being examined.

Both federal and state representatives are associated with the search.

Some Mexican news outlets launched video of the supposed kidnapping revealing numerous lorries stopped on the highway with their doors open and guys in bulletproof vests pointing weapons at the travelers in the cars.

The state district attorney’s workplace stated it was examining the credibility of the videos, which likewise revealed a minimum of 3 trucks obstructing a highway.

The paper Reforma reported that the armed guys took the staff members’ smart phones away and bought them to push the ground. The females in the group were enabled to stroll complimentary, it included.

Tuxtla Gutierrez lies about 700km (435 miles) southwest of Mexico City.

Throughout a trip of Chiapas last Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reduced the violence in the location, stating that in basic there was “peace, there is harmony” in the state.

The day prior to the president’s see, an authorities with the Attorney General’s Office was seriously hurt after being shot in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in an attack that eliminated the individual who was with her.

On June 19, a fight in between the military and assumed members of the mob left an aspect of the National Guard and a civilian dead in Ocozocoautla.

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