Sixteen police employees who had been kidnapped in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas have been freed after three days of captivity, Governor Rutilio Escandon said Friday.
“I want to tell the people of Chiapas and Mexico that the 16 kidnapped colleagues… have been released this afternoon,” the governor said on Twitter.The relatives had been staging a sit-in at the Chiapas Security Secretariat, where those abducted were employed, demanding the safe release of their loved ones.
“My brother is in the ambulance right now. They are working on keeping his vital signs stable, as his blood pressure was high,” Benicia Rincon, sister of one of the hostages, told one local network. They had been kidnapped Tuesday while traveling aboard a bus on a stretch of highway that connects the town of Ocozocoautla and the state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez, some 700 kilometers southeast of Mexico City.Local media released a video purportedly showing the captive workers, one of whom says that the abductors are demanding the resignation or dismissal of three state security officials accused of working in secret with another armed group.
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