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This article was translated and reposted from LUZ NOTICIAS
The 8 Kidnapped are part of the 66 people who had disappeared on March 22 in Culiacán.
WRITTEN BY: HEIDI FONSECA
04/07/2024
The 8 “kidnapped” people who were missing in Culiacán after the disappearance of 66 people on March 22 have already been located and are “safe and sound,” confirmed the Secretary of Security, Gerardo Mérida Sánchez.
After 17 days of the search operation by elements of the Army, National Guard, Federal Ministerial Police, and Municipal Police, the Secretary indicated that the 66 people who had been “kidnapped” were already in their homes, so it was concluded the special operation.
«The last persons who needed to return home did so this Sunday morning. “This fulfills the objective of the operations for the 66 people, presumably deprived of their liberty, to return to their homes,” he confirmed.
Without further details
The Secretary of Security indicated that it was this Sunday, April 7, that the agents confirmed that the last missing “kidnapped” persons returned home, in good health.
Without giving more details about the location of the 8 people who had been “kidnapped”, he reiterated that it would be the investigation authorities who would give specifications of what the rescue operation was like.