{"id":38865,"date":"2013-10-02T16:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=38865"},"modified":"2013-10-02T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:05:22","slug":"73-rescued-from-mexican-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=38865","title":{"rendered":"73 rescued from Mexican house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/defining-moments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38863\" alt=\"&gt; on August 4, 2013 in Arriaga, Mexico.\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/defining-moments.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/defining-moments.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/defining-moments-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/defining-moments-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The trek for those traveling through northern Mexico remains dangerous: police rescued 73 people who were being held hostage in the border city of Reynosa.<\/p>\n<p>The victims had been kidnapped from buses or bus terminals, and about half were Central Americans, police said. It is likely, though police did not say, that a majority of the victims were migrants on their way north to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the kidnap victims were held for as long as four months, Mexico&#8217;s National Security Commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Federal police on patrol Monday in Reynosa followed a car after its occupants tried to avoid them, the commission said. When the two men in the car pulled up to a house, so did the police.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the house, police found 73 hostages: 37 Mexicans, 19 Hondurans, 14 Guatemalans, and three Salvadorans, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Six minors were among those rescued, the commission said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged kidnappers made phone calls to the victims&#8217; families, demanding ransom payments in exchange for their release, the commission said.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the two men in the car who arrived at the house, and a third man who they allege worked as a lookout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trek for those traveling through northern Mexico remains dangerous: police rescued 73 people who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[2459],"class_list":["post-38865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-73-rescued-from-mexican-house","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}