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The spokesperson for the State Peacebuilding Roundtable confirmed that local and federal authorities are maintaining a search operation to locate the police officers.
Five police officers from Villa Hidalgo, Zacatecas, were kidnapped this Sunday by a group of armed men who broke into the municipal police station. In the last week alone, seven policemen have disappeared in the town.
Through a press release, the State Peacebuilding Board informed that the Armed Forces and state authorities are working in the area, adjacent to San Luis PotosÃ, in an operation.
“In the municipality of Villa Hidalgo an important coordinated operative deployment is being carried out in which the Mexican Army, National Guard and the Immediate Reaction Force Zacatecas (FRIZ) of the State Preventive Police are participating,” informed the spokesperson of the State Roundtable.
Authorities also informed that during the operation, in which security forces from the three levels of government participated, aerial searches were carried out with drones as part of the search actions.
Today’s is the second case that has occurred in the southeast of Zacatecas in the last few days. The first occurred early Tuesday morning, when, according to local media, two municipal police officers were abducted by an armed criminal cell who also broke into the Villa Garcia municipal police station.
Hours later, the Government of Zacatecas confirmed that one of the policemen was found dead in the community of La Concha in the neighboring municipality.
