Gunmen kidnap 20 Foreigners from Mexico Hotel
On Tuesday, the state's attorney general's office said the gunmen stormed a hotel in Mexico's central San Luis Potosi state and kidnapped some 20 foreigners believed to be mostly from Haiti and Venezuela.
The gunmen ransacked the building and took off with the logbook of guests, making it hard to identify who was kidnapped at the Sol y Luna Hotel in Matehuala, about 195 kilometres (121 miles) north of the city of San Luis Potosi, the regional capital.
The authorities have launched an investigation and are trying to rescue the guests, Garza added.
"We are trying to find their identities," Arturo Garza Herrera, the state attorney general, said in a statement.
The statement did not clarify if the kidnapped Haitians and Venezuelans were migrants heading to the United States.
Many migrants face extreme dangers on their route to the United States, with kidnappings, extortion, rape, and even murders reported. Some migrants are also conscripted to work for drug cartels fighting over drug trafficking routes.
In June, a human rights group reported that some 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a U.S. border policy had been kidnapped, raped, trafficked, or assaulted.
0 Comment