16 police workers released after being kidnapped in southern Mexico

After three days of captivity, 16 police staff kidnapped in southern Mexico have been launched Friday.

Rutilio Escandón, governor of Chiapas state, confirmed their return on Twitter.

“I wish to inform the folks of Chiapas and Mexico that the 16 kidnapped colleagues have been launched this afternoon,” he wrote within the put up.

No particulars got on the circumstances of their launch. The abductors had demanded the dismissal of three native police officers in Chiapas and the discharge of native singer Neyeli Cinco, who was kidnapped final week by one other gang.

The police employees have been captured Tuesday by gunmen in a number of vans that intercepted a police transport truck on the Ocozocoautla-Tuxtla Gutiérrez freeway. The gunmen took all of the male staff however left 17 ladies.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned the group labored at a neighborhood jail, apparently as guards or administrative employees, although they’re formally employed by the state police.

After the kidnapping, authorities deployed greater than 1,000 officers to seek for the abductees.

Nevertheless, the kidnapped males returned on their very own aboard a pickup journey, arriving on the state police headquarters in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, an official within the state prosecutor’s workplace mentioned. The official spoke on situation of anonymity.

Kin who had arrange camp exterior the company ran to wrap their family members in an embrace after they noticed them get out of the car.

Southern Mexico has seen an escalation of violence in latest months, with narco-blockades of key highways, confrontations, executions, disappearances and different crimes. Officers have blamed a territorial dispute between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Technology Cartel.