Mexican army frees 34 kidnapped Central American migrants
Updated 7:07 pm CDT, Thursday, March 14, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army says it has freed 34 Central American migrants who had been kidnapped in the northern state of Tamaulipas, across from Texas.
The Defense Department said Thursday in a statement that the migrants had been held at a property in the municipality of Altamira and were located by patrols. Twenty-five were Hondurans, eight were from Guatemala and one from El Salvador.
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/texas/article/Mexican-army-frees-34-kidnapped-Central-American-13689915.phpIt was a different group from the at least 19 people who were abducted from a bus in the state on March 7 and whose whereabouts remain unknown.
Tamaulipas is generally the shortest route toward the United States for Central American migrants heading north.