Eighteen of the 25 people kidnapped Friday in Culiacan, in northwest Mexico, have been freed. The governor of the state of Sinaloa said that of the 18 people released, nine are adults and nine minors.
The armed kidnappers, hooded and dressed in black, arrived in vans and fired shots into the air. This event occurred Friday the day after the death of three people during an armed clash in Badiraguato (northwest), hometown of the former leader of the Sinaloan cartel, Joaquin " El Chapo" Guzmán.