Mexican army rescues 165 migrants from kidnappers
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Societe
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Mexican soldiers have rescued 165 people, mostly from Central America, who has been held for several weeks by a drug cartel alongside the U.S. border, authorities said Thursday.
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The migrants, which included 14 Mexicans and one Indian, were seized in the northern state of Tamaulipas, a government statement said.
The army found the group being held at gunpoint in "precarious, unhealthy and overcrowded conditions" in a property in the municipality of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz on the border with the United States, the statement said.
A man guarding the migrants was arrested during the raid, it said.
Mexican drug cartels often kidnap migrants and demand ransom from their families.
The statement did not say which cartel is responsible for the abduction, but it is believed that the Los Zetas cartel is behind most abduction of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In 2010, 72 migrants were found massacred in a ranch apparently owned by the Los Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas.
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