Seven young workers from the electrical sector were reported missing after losing contact with their families on March 21 in the municipality of Matehuala, in the central state of San Luis Potosí, Mexican media reported on Monday. Update: The municipal government of Matehuala reported that the missing persons have been found and are giving statements at the prosecutor's office: Here is the note published earlier in Aristegui Noticias: According to reports, the men, from Cárdenas, had left since March 16 to work at different points in the Potosi plateau and were returning on the Matehuala-Cárdenas highway when communication with them was lost. You may be interested >CDMX | Urban risks warned for Cablebús in Álvaro Obregón The missing, aged between 20 and 30, were identified as Ángel Daniel Pérez López, Miguel Ángel Pérez Olivo, Jaciel Zapata García, Omar Godoy Galván, Said Hernán Olvera, Celso López González and Macario Torres Castillo. Relatives told local media that the last communication occurred on the morning of Saturday, when the group reported they were returning to their place of origin, after which their phones stopped responding. “All we ask is that they return them alive. They were working well, they were not involved in anything bad,” one of the relatives told a local media outlet. According to the versions collected, a third person alerted about a possible illegal deprivation of liberty, although so far there is no confirmed information about the place of the facts or about the alleged perpetrators. The search fichas were disseminated by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Human Rights of San Luis Potosí, the State Commission for the Search of People of San Luis Potosí and the collective Voz y Dignidad por los Nuestros San Luis Potosí, although so far there is no official information about the facts, which has increased the concern of their relatives. Meanwhile, Deportivo Cali FC, of which some of the missing were part, also made a call on its social networks to intensify the search. “We are trying to locate some members of our soccer team and we need your support. Any data, no matter how small it may seem, can be of great help,” the sports group exposed on its Facebook page. The case occurs in a region affected by violence and in the midst of recent reports of collective disappearances in the country, such as that of the ten miners of the Canadian company Vizsla Silver, kidnapped at the end of January in Sinaloa (northwest), allegedly deprived of their liberty by an armed command after being confused with members of a rival criminal group of the Sinaloa Cartel. So far, the authorities have not reported progress in the location of the seven workers. EFE If you have seen them or have any information, please contact us as soon as possible.
