MEXICO CITY — Dozens of gunmen burst into a Holiday Inn and another hotel in the northern industrial city of Monterrey on Wednesday and abducted at least six people, prosecutors said.
Nuevo Leon state attorney general Alejandro Garza y Garza said that between 20 and 30 gunmen abducted four guests and a receptionist from the Holiday Inn. The assailants then went to the nearby Hotel Mision, where they abducted a receptionist, he said.
Garza y Garza said the gunmen had with them a handcuffed man who had apparently led them to the Holiday Inn. Those abducted included three male guests who registered at the Holiday Inn as being from Mexico City and a woman who said she was from the border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas.
Organized crime was probably behind the attacks, the state attorney general said. The gunmen appeared to be looking for specific targets. Still, it was not clear exactly what motivated the abductions or who the victims were.
The U.S. Consulate repeated warnings to U.S. citizens to be wary of violence in Nuevo Leon state.
