MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Federal Police freed 44 people who were being held captive at a house in the northeastern city of Reynosa, authorities said.The officers were patrolling an area near the home when they heard a woman shouting for help, the National Security Commission (CNS) said in a statement Friday.
They then surrounded the house and secured the release of 27 Mexicans; 14 Hondurans, including five minors; a Salvadoran man; a Guatemalan woman; and a Belizean woman.
The victims were kidnapped at a bus terminal in Reynosa and then held captive at a safe house while the kidnappers demanded ransom payments from relatives for their release, the CNS said.
Reynosa is located in the border state of Tamaulipas, where brutal crimes have been committed against undocumented migrants.
In August 2010, 72 mostly Central American migrants were massacred in the municipality of San Fernando, a crime attributed to the notorious Los Zetas drug mob.
After several years as the armed wing of the Gulf cartel, Los Zetas went into the drug business on their own account in early 2010 and now control several lucrative territories.
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