Mexico police search for migrants kidnapped off coach - BBC News

Armed men boarded a bus carrying mostly migrants to the US-Mexico border and kidnapped more than 30.

1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The National Guard is among the security forces searching for the migrants (file photo)By Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsPolice in Mexico are searching for dozens of migrants who were abducted at gunpoint from a coach that was taking them to the US-Mexico border.

Gunmen boarded the bus on Saturday and seized 31 passenger, who are thought to be mostly from South America.

A number of Mexican passengers and the driver, who were not kidnapped, raised the alarm.

Migrants are often targeted by gangs, which hold them until a ransom is paid by their families.

Those abducted on Saturday were travelling in a commercial coach operated by the company Senda, which was taking them from the industrial city of Monterrey to Matamoros, just south of the US border.

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