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Mexican police rescue 51 migrants abducted by gangs
Apr 26, 2011, 16:42 GMT
Mexico City - Mexican police have freed 51 migrants who had been abducted and were being held by criminals in the north-eastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
'Among those rescued there were 14 Guatemalans, two Hondurans, two Salvadorans, six Chinese and 27 Mexicans,' Mexican authorities said late Monday.
They victims were being held against their will in Reynosa, Mexico, across the US border from McAllen, Texas.
A total of 119 people have been rescued in Tamaulipas over the last week.
From April 1-19, police found 34 mass graves in Tamaulipas holding remains of 177 bodies, including several people believed to have been passengers forced off buses by the criminal gang Los Zetas.
Criminal gangs reportedly rob and extort migrants, induce them to smuggle drugs into the United States or force them into service for the gangs. Many are killed.
Also Monday, police found 17 bodies in a mass grave in the city of Durango, raising to 75 the death toll in the area in recent weeks.
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