Armed men burst into a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta and abducted as many as 16 customers early on Monday, according to local authorities. Prosecutors in the western state of Jalisco said that around 1am local time, the gunmen entered a restaurant called La Leche on the resort city’s main boulevard, bundled the victims into SUVs and sped away. At a news conference, Jalisco state prosecutor Eduardo Almaguer said the preliminary results of the investigation indicated that all the victims were members of “criminal organizations”. All of those abducted were from the western states of Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco, Almaguer said. “To the residents and tourists of Puerto Vallarta, I inform you that we have reinforced security so that you can go on as usual,” Sandoval wrote.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2016 21:40 UTC