29th April 2023
Mexican authorities said they rescued 63 migrants reported to have been abducted in the northwestern state of Sonora near the United States border.
Thirteen minors were among the migrants found safe in Sonoyta, a town across the frontier from Lukeville, Arizona, the Sonora state prosecutor’s office said late Thursday. A search operation was launched earlier that day in response to an alert issued by the consulate of Ecuador about a number of abducted citizens, a statement said.
The migrants found included 43 Ecuadorians, nine Colombians, five Mexicans, four Venezuelans, one Peruvian and one Dominican, it added.
Ecuador welcomed their rescue in a statement and urged its nationals “not to travel irregularly to avoid risks to life and human dignity.”
The prosecutor’s office did not report any arrests during the operation, which involved soldiers and police, but said it was investigating who was responsible.
Thousands of migrants fleeing violence and poverty risk abduction and exploitation at the hands of criminal gangs while crossing Mexico on the way to the US border.
AFP
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Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
