Armed men kidnap nine migrants, including women and children, from a Mexican hotel

Armed men kidnap nine migrants, including women and children, from a Mexican hotel

• Seven Ecuadorians and two Guatemalans were abducted from the San Miguel Hotel in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Wednesday night
• Armed men raided the northern Mexican border town hotel and forced the migrants, including two children, into a SUV
• Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office recovered two vehicles used by the suspects hours later

By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com

Updated: 01:27 BST, 25 August 2023

Nine migrants, including two children, are missing after a group of armed men kidnapped them from a hotel in the northern Mexico border town of Ciudad Juárez, the Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office said.

Four assailants barged into the San Miguel Hotel on Wednesday around 6pm and forced the migrants out of their rooms and into one of their two SUVs.

The suspects broke down several doors and destroyed surveillance camera cables before they were able to escape.

The Attorney General’s Office confirmed seven of the migrants are Ecuadorian nationals and two are from Guatemala.

It also been said officials had initiated a search and rescue mission composed of municipal, state and federal police officers.

Seven migrants from Ecuador and two from Guatemala were kidnapped from the San Miguel Hotel in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Wednesday night 

Surveillance camera footage helped authorities both vehicles that were used by the armed men to carry out the kidnapping.

Authorities recovered a red Chevrolet Tahoe the suspects use near a housing development four miles away from the San Miguel Hotel.

A second vehicle, a black Chevrolet Tahoe, was also found abandoned about six miles from the hotel.

Abductions of migrants who cross through Mexico in their journey to reach the United States are not uncommon. Gangs and cartels survey crossing points and charge migrants fees to cross the border and kidnap them for ransom.

In a separate incident, Mexican authorities rescued 11 Venezuelan migrants, including  a six-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl, in Monterrey, Mexico, on Tuesday

Venezuelan migrants are led into a van after they were rescued from a home in Monterrey where smugglers held them against their will

In a separate incident, at least 11 Venezuelan migrants, including a six-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl, were rescued Tuesday from a property in Monterrey, a city in the northeastern state of Nuevo León.

In July, seven Honduran migrants, including three minors, were rescued from a State of México home after one of them was able to escape and flag down police.

In May, authorities safely located 10 Colombian migrants at a gas station after they were kidnapped in the town of San Luis Rio Colorado, across from Arizona.

A New York relative of one of the victims received a call from the kidnappers, who demanded a $2,500 for the release of his loved ones.

According to Mexico’s National Institute of Migration, authorities rescued 2,115 migrants who were kidnapped in 2022.

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