Police Rescue 2 Mexican Journalists
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican police rescued two journalists Saturday who had been kidnapped earlier in the week by suspected drug traffickers seeking to silence the media.
Federal police said they carried out a raid in the morning, freeing the camera operators Javier Canales and Alejandro Hernández, who work for Mexican television networks.
“They were rescued today,” the security ministry said in a statement.
The two were abducted Monday after covering a prison scandal in the northern state of Durango in which inmates are accused of being hired guns for a local cartel. Two other journalists covering the scandal were reportedly abducted around the same time.
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