“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
Authorities of the Ministry of Public Security are investigating the whereabouts of the passengers of a bus intercepted by a group of armed men near Rio Bravo.
The State Guard keeps watch at bus stations in Tamaulipas.
Tamaulipas Public Security Authorities are looking for 31 passengers who were on board a foreign bus from Nuevo Leon to Matamoros, who were intercepted by armed people on the highway, last Saturday night, December 30, 2023.
The transport unit was carrying Mexican children, men and women, but also migrants of different nationalities, but they were lost track of very close to Texas, but on the Tamaulipas side.
The Tamaulipas Security Department, through its head, Jorge Cuellar, confirmed this event and without giving any further information on this case, said that they were investigating the abduction of the passengers who disappeared since Saturday afternoon.
The Attorney General’s Office and the National Migration Institute have been asked for a reaction on the case, however, no positive response has been obtained.
The unit departed from the northern state of Nuevo Leon and its final destination was the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is currently facing a serious problem due to the agglomeration of thousands of migrants trying to illegally cross the Rio Bravo to reach the United States.
The bus stopped in the border city of Reynosa and then departed along the federal route to Matamoros.
In a rural town near the city of Rio Bravo an armed criminal cell stopped the bus and after a search took the 31 people, said the official.
The facts were reported by the driver of the transport unit.
Only four passengers who were traveling on board were left inside the unit, who were taken to Matamoros, under the protection of the National Guard, the Army and the State Guard.
A similar case occurred in March 2019 when armed subjects stopped a passenger bus on the San Fernando-Reynosa federal highway and took 22 people whose fate is still unknown.
Bus under guard after incident
The Senda bus is detained on the platforms of the Matamoros, Tamaulipas bus station after the incident.
The bus was escorted to the Matamoros bus station, where the passengers disembarked, no information was given about the migrants involved.
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