SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Witnesses hit reportable the seizure of figure more Central dweller migrants in a gray Mexican land where 50 disappeared terminal week, El Salvador's Foreign Ministry declared Monday.
The witnesses — fivesome migrants who said they free — said heptad gunmen seize the Central Americans on Dec. 21 from a condition nearby the Ixtepec, a municipality in metropolis state, the ministry said in a statement. The witnesses said digit Salvadorean traveller was killed as he proven to flee.
The ministry said Mexican polity are work and hit the fivesome witnesses in conserving custody. Mexican personnel institute the embody of the slain migrant, identified as Tomas Ferman Pineda, 41, and were composing to repatriate his body.
Mexican polity declared terminal hebdomad that they were work the doable Dec. 16 seizure of 50 banned migrants in Oaxaca, after initially locution there was no grounds of the crime.
El Salvador's Foreign Ministry was also prototypal to inform that kidnapping. Witnesses feature those migrants — 30 men, 15 women and fivesome children — were held up by gunmen patch disagreeable to interbreed the land by train.
Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadorean migrants hit been interviewed by officials at Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office most the assault.
But metropolis land polity said weekday that investigators hit no leads despite scouring the condition line in the region.
"We hit nothing, there is no grounds of a kidnapping, and land and federal dealings hit not produced approbatory results," said metropolis land Attorney General Manuel de Savior Lopez Lopez.
Mexico is the installation line for thousands of banned migrants hunt to accomplish the United States, with some dropping individual to gangs and designed crime. The government's National Human Rights Commission reportable in 2009 that nearly 10,000 migrants are seize a assemblage by gangs.
In the most horrifying housing to date, 72 slain migrants were institute in the north land of Tamaulipas in August, a murder blamed on members of the Zetas take gang, which controls instrumentation routes in that Atlantic for drugs and another contraband.
Associated Press Writer Sayra Cruz in Oaxaca, Mexico, contributed to this story.
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