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61 migrants from Central, South America rescued in Mexico

Xinhua, June 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Mexico's federal agents and marines rescued 61 Central and South American migrants during two different operations, federal and state authorities said on Saturday.

Twenty-one migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Colombia were discovered confined in a house in Reynosa, a city on the Mexico-U.S. border Monday night.

The migrants, including at least one minor, were being kept captive by smugglers who were allegedly stealing them to the United States, authorities said.

Two vehicles carrying 40 migrants on a highway in Cardenas, a city in southeast Mexico, was intercepted in a separate operation.

Women and children were among the migrants, who were allegedly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, local newspaper El Heroico reported.

Two Honduran men were detained for being allegedly responsible for transporting the migrants. Endi