Update | Mexico finds 49 migrants who were kidnapped from bus
Published:Thursday | May 18, 2023 | 4:20 PM
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's army said Thursday that troops have found 49 migrants, including 11 children, who were kidnapped from a bus earlier this week.
Defence Secretary General Luis Cresencio Sandoval said 650 police and army troops were involved in the search for the migrants, who disappeared Tuesday.
The last 33 of the migrants were found early Thursday in an area where another mass kidnapping of migrants occurred in April.
Sandoval said none of the abductors had been arrested, nor were two bus drivers found yet.
The migrants said a drug cartel abducted them when their bus stopped at a gas station in northern Mexico.
Sandoval did not identify the cartel responsible for the kidnapping but acknowledged the Gulf cartel and other gangs operate in the area, where the northern states of San Luis Potosi and Nuevo Leon meet.
He also did not rule out the possibility that more migrants may be found, because there wasn't a clear accounting of how many were on the bus to start with.
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