An armed commando kidnapped 10 members of
one family in a rural area of the Mexican state of Michoacan, in western Mexico, early Tuesday, according to media reports.
Michoacan, the native state of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, is among
the most troubled by drug violence in Mexico. Last week, an
attack on a crowded public celebration of Mexican independence left eight
people dead and some 130 injured in the state capital, Morelia, dpa reported.
Early Tuesday, armed attackers arrived in the community Las Ordenitas
and took the victims from two houses, according to police sources cited by
Mexican media.
Such kidnappings with no ransom demands are a relatively common form of
drug-related vendettas in violence-plagued Mexico, and they generally end in
the deaths of the kidnapped.
It was not immediately known whether there were women and children among those
abducted.
According to the Quadratin news agency in Michoacan, the commando took members
of the families headed by two brothers. Blood stains and shells of AK-47 and
AR-15 rifles were reportedly found at one of the homes.
The Mexican government has thousands of military and police officers deployed
in Michoacan since late 2006, in an effort to curb the activities of organized
crime.
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