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Latino Daily News

Tuesday April 26, 2011

MX Government Rescues 51 Migrant Hostages at Border, Chinese Migrants Amongst Them

MX Government Rescues 51 Migrant Hostages at Border, Chinese Migrants Amongst Them

Photo: Mexico's Security Ministry - Migrant Rescue Photos

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Mexican authorities are reporting the federal police rescued 51 kidnapped migrants at a house in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, located across the border from McAllen, Texas.

This is the federal police’s, under the auspices of Mexico’s Public Security Ministry, second high profile rescue the other occurring last week.  In that incident 68 hostages were rescued also in the border city of Reynosa.

This most recent migrant rescue found the majority to be Mexican nationals, however there were also 14 Guatemalans, two Hondurans, two Salvadorans and six Chinese.

No one was arrested at the site.  Reynosa is in the same state and 90 miles north of San Fernando where numerous mass graves were found of kidnapped bus passengers, thus far 177 bodies have been found – the search for more bodies continues.