Dozens of people, including 22 of foreign nationality, denounce having been kidnapped in the early hours of Tuesday by
an armed commando
in a hotel in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Hours later, in circumstances that have not yet been clarified, they were released, authorities reported.
Federico Garza Herrera, head of the Attorney General of San Luis Potosí, said in a statement that he received information in
an anonymous call
about a group of 16 Mexicans who were in front of a store asking for help.
They claimed that an armed commando had deprived them of their liberty at the Sol y Luna motel, located in the municipality of Matehuala, and that they had later been released.
The victims also reported that among the people abducted from the different rooms of the hotel
there was another group of more than 20 foreigners
.
[This Latina girl was kidnapped 14 years ago. Her mother received a mysterious message on social media and found her]
Investigative Police officers reported that they went to the hotel, where they interviewed several witnesses who assured that, during the shift change, three vans with armed men entered the facilities, “which caused damage to the rooms and deprived the freedom to several guests ”, specifies the official information.
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