Nicaraguan amongst 44 kidnapped Central American migrants rescued in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, October 2nd, 2015 (EFE) The Tamaulipas state police force has rescued 44 migrants held captive for a number of days in the Mexican municipality of Reynosa on the U.S. border, officials reported.

The group of those rescued was made up of 35 Salvadorans, six Guatemalans, two Hondurans and one Nicaraguan.

The Tamaulipas Coordination Group, or GCT, said in a communique that the migrants’ rescue was carried out Wednesday as a follow-up to a citizen’s report.

State police were alerted that “armed men had in their power a numerous group of migrants” and by means of a special operation rescued 18 men, 10 women and 16 minors of various nationalities.

After the rescue, the migrants said “they had been held captive for several days and had been given nothing to eat,” while the kidnappers fled when they became aware of state police closing in on them.

The migrants were given the necessary care to protect their health and were later handed over to the National Migration Institute, or INM, so they could receive consular aid and an assisted return to their countries of origin.