By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police in northwestern Mexico are searching for 27 farmworkers who were kidnapped by dozens of heavily armed men wearing military-style uniforms.
The attorney general of Sinaloa state says the assailants got the farmworkers out of bed at a vegetable farm just outside the state capital of Culiacan on Monday. They then drove off with the group in a caravan of sport utility vehicles.
The victims were all men between 16 and 61 years old who make less than $10 per day.
State prosecutor Alfredo Higuera said Tuesday the motive for the mass kidnapping is still being investigated. But local media say a drug gang may have kidnapped the men to make them work growing marijuana.
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