2023-09-26 07:27:00
Seven young people were kidnapped in the state of Zacatecasin the north-central region of MexicoThe local prosecutor’s office reported this Monday, a little less than two months following another similar group was kidnapped in the western state of Jalisco.
The boys are aged between 14 and 18 years old and they were kidnapped on a ranch in the town of Villanueva, reported the state prosecutor, Francisco Murillo.
The official explained that the young people were held following finishing a social gathering at the scene, the agency stated AFP.
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“They were asleep these people (…) when apparently around 4 in the morning they begin to see the presence of a criminal group of people who They arrived in vehicles and they took them out and took them away.“, said.
Along these lines, he announced that following the kidnapping an operation was organized involving some 300 elements of the army, National Guard, state police and prosecutor’s office to locate them.
He ruled out that it was a case of forced recruitment by organized crime groups.. “I think this is not the case for these young people,” she said.
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At the beginning of August, the kidnapping and alleged murder of a group of five young people in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, shocked the country because their captivity and martyrdom were broadcast in a photo and video on social networks.
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Zacatecas, which has strategic routes to the US drug market and ports in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico, has been the scene of violence linked to organized crime.
In the state, the struggle between Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa carteltwo of the largest criminal organizations in the country, has left hundreds of people displaced.
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