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Newspaper deliveryman abducted in Mexico following shooting of newspaper office

“A courier for the newspaper El Debate, in Culiacán [Mexico], was kidnapped in the morning [of Oct. 19] as he was on his way home. This occurred one day after the governor of [the state of] Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, promised to guarantee security for the workers of that publishing house after the shooting attack to its facilities [...].

According to the newspaper, the courier was chased through the center of the city by individuals who managed to throw him off the motorcycle that he rides to deliver newspapers. The victim managed to get to his feet and into a store. Later, one of his colleagues took him to the Red Cross for a knee injury caused by the fall. [...] On the way from the Red Cross to his home he was found again by his assailants who then abducted him. The colleague was released.

[...] The victim's son asked on social media for his release. The son identified the man as Sergio Cárdenas Hernández. ‘Please share, he is my dad, the deliveryman from El Debate who was kidnapped, he was just working.’"

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