Armed group in Mexico kidnapped 14 officers of the Ministry of Safety Crime Information

The group, all individuals who labored within the administration on the police station, have been turned away from a freeway in Chiapas.

Safety forces within the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are in search of 14 administrative staff of the state safety ministry who’ve been kidnapped by members of an armed group.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, about 34.4 kilometers (22 miles) west of the state capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez, on the freeway connecting it to the city of Okozukuotla.

The abductors have been all males and labored in administration at a police station, the state safety company mentioned in a press release.

“Nothing like that has occurred,” a ministry spokesman instructed Reuters information company, including that the motive for the kidnapping was being investigated.

Each federal and state brokers are concerned within the search.

Some Mexican information shops launched video of the alleged kidnapping that confirmed a number of automobiles stopped on the freeway with their doorways open and males in bulletproof vests pointing weapons at passengers within the automobiles.

The state prosecutor’s workplace mentioned it was investigating the authenticity of the movies, which confirmed a minimum of three vehicles blocking a freeway.

Newspaper Reforma reported that the armed males took the cell phones of the staff and ordered them to lie on the bottom. Ladies within the group have been allowed to maneuver freely, it added.

Tuxtla Gutierrez is positioned 700 km (435 mi) southwest of Mexico Metropolis.

Throughout a go to to Chiapas final Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador downplayed the violence within the area, saying normally “there may be peace, there may be calm” within the state.

A day earlier than the president’s go to, an official from the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace was severely injured after being shot in an assault in Tuxtla Gutierrez that killed the person who was accompanying him.

On June 19, a conflict between the military and suspected members of organized crime killed a component of the Nationwide Guard and a civilian in Okozokutla.