Mexican authorities found 51 victims while searching for 20 hostages

Authorities in the central-northern state of Mexico searched by land and air for more than 20 people who were traveling in two trucks and were reported missing as they passed through the state of San Luis Potosí, but they found 51 people in those missions. The central government said in a statement that the victims of different crimes.

What’s surprising is that no one has reported the rest missing, authorities have only identified one, and for two days conflicting reports followed each other along a stretch of Mexico’s main thoroughfare. to the United States and to serious organized crime activities.

It all started on Tuesday, when car rental and tour services company Grupo Eiffel denounced the alleged kidnapping of more than 20 people, including two of its employees – drivers – who were traveling in two company vans bound for Saltillo in the border state. In Coimbatore.

Adrian Gonzalez, the company’s legal representative, explained to The Associated Press that the group of adult men left San Felipe in the violent state of Guanajuato on Monday morning in a 15-passenger van. Another of the six passengers, the first of them GPS.

Early Tuesday morning, they realized a vehicle with a locator was parked high up in the neighboring state of San Luis Potosí, which worried the company. The alarm was raised as the drivers could not be contacted.

González got a call from the person who hired the service for one of his brothers, and Gonzalez explained that one of them, organized crime figures, had captured them and were asking for 60,000 pesos (about $3,000) each for their release. They.. He also said that the drivers are kept in a separate place.

González, who said he did not know what the man who hired his services was doing, filed a complaint with the Guanajuato prosecutor’s office on Tuesday and contacted the National Guard, the same day he found one of the trucks in Matehuala, San Luis Potosí. , but without anyone aboard, according to a military statement Gonzalez shared with the AP.

When the complaint became public on Wednesday, government officials from Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí announced joint surveillance efforts that were later joined by federal forces.

But in the operation they found more people than they were looking for.

The San Luis Potosí prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it had found 16 people who were victims of the robbery, and on Thursday seized five trucks and long weapons, as well as two groups of detained migrants.

Authorities did not clarify if they were the same people denounced as missing by the Eiffel Group until a federal report released Thursday night identified Luis Felipe Macias Arriaga, the driver of one of the vehicles he allegedly took. Immigrants.

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