Updated: 18:39, Thursday September 2, 2010
Mexican police have rescued six Cuban migrants who had been held for
ransom for a month near the popular beachside resort of Cancun,
officials said.
A police patrol stormed a house in Bonfil, on the outskirts of Cancun,
on Tuesday after receiving a tip, Quintana Roo state public security
chief Enrique Alberto Sanmiguel told AFP.
'When the patrol arrived, they found five men and a woman who explained
they were Cubans,' he said on Wednesday, noting that the abductors were
seeking between $US8000 ($A8,792) and $US10,000 ($A10,990) in ransom
from the migrants' US relatives in Miami.
During the ordeal, the Cubans were moved constantly to different sites
in order to avoid detection by police.
Cancun is a major transit point for thousands of Cuban boatpeople who
leave their communist island illegally and travel through Mexico in a
bid to reach the United States and be granted asylum there.
The rescue came a week after Mexican police discovered the bodies of 72
Central and South American migrants on a ranch in northeastern Mexico
close to the US border.
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