SLP, Mexico.- A group of 22 migrants, including four Cubans, were rescued after an armed confrontation with a criminal group on the Tapachula-Viva México highway.
During a joint operation between various security entities, the 22 migrants who remained kidnapped in a ranch in the Mexican border city of Tapachula were saved, local media reported. South Journal.
Although the identity of the migrants has not been revealed, the press stated that 16 were Venezuelans, two were Colombians and four were Cubans. Among them were two minors.
In the fight against the kidnappers, two security force agents lost their lives, an alleged criminal was arrested and 14 more managed to escape.
Elements of the @SEDENAmx @FGEChiapas They confronted criminals, rescued Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in cockpits, in Tapachula. A soldier and an anti-kidnapping police officer died, 6 more injured. pic.twitter.com/rj0XQFEkpH
— Fatima Monterrosa (@fmonterrosa) November 29, 2024
According to the local media, last Thursday afternoon, the authorities received a report of the presence of an armed group at the ranch.
Subsequently, police officers arrived at the scene and were attacked by approximately 15 armed men.
Eredin Chacón Márquez, a member of the Investigative Police (PDI), and Carlos Cueto Reyes, a member of the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), died in the confrontation.
The authorities seized more than 15 long weapons, presumably for exclusive use of the Army.
The confrontation occurred days after the kidnapping of four Cuban migrants was reported in the center of Tapachula, Chiapas state.
In their transit to the border with the United States, migrants are victims of extortion and kidnappings and, in many cases, die at the hands of organized crime.
In just three months, 38 migrants have lost their lives in the state of Chiapas, the first place they arrived on their journey to the northern border.
This month the discovery of the bodies of the Cubans Ana Mercedes Capetillo Savón, 33, and Leydi de la Caridad Rodríguez Acosta, 36, who were kidnapped by an armed group while they were in a hotel and then taken to an unknown location.
The bodies of The victims were handed over to their relatives in Chiapas. They had been found dismembered in an abandoned corral on the highway that connects the Pumpuapan canton with Nueva Granada, in the upper area of Tapachula, a city on the border with Guatemala and where many Cubans arrive, hoping to advance north.
