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CANCUN: 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 8,000 and 10,000 dollars 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 boat people 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 abandoned on a ranch in northeastern Mexico close to the US border.
-AFP/wk
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