Kidnapped Mexican Security Staff Freed After 3-Day Search

State security ministry employees, who were kidnapped by members of an armed group days ago, react after meeting their relatives after being freed, outside the Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection of Chiapas, in Tuxtla Gutierrez building, Mexico, on June 30, 2023. Jacob Garcia/Reuters

MEXICO CITY—Sixteen Mexican state security ministry employees were freed on Friday after being kidnapped earlier in the week in the southern state of Chiapas, authorities said, following a three-day search.

“All of them are OK,” a spokesperson for the ministry said.