They fled while being transferred to a migrant shelter.
On Friday, prosecutors in the Mexican state of Tabasco confirmed that five of six minors who had been reported missing after being deported from the United States were found alive.
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The missing persons report was filed Wednesday by Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), prompting the activation of an Amber Alert to locate the adolescents.
“The teenagers were being transferred to the Celia Gonzalez de Rovirosa shelter. However, when they were taken off the vehicle transporting them, they ran away,” the prosecutor’s office said.
The six youths are originally from the states of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and Coahuila, but were expelled from the United States and transferred to the southern state of Chiapas.
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The five youths who were located are Jorge Vega, 17, from Chihuahua; Justin Torres, 17, from Coahuila; Dilan Herbert, 16, from Tamaulipas; Miguel Rodriguez, 16, from Tamaulipas; and Tadeo Moreno, 14, from Tamaulipas. Authorities said Roberto Vazquez, 14, from Tamaulipas, remains missing.
State prosecutors added that after the five youths were found, they were placed under INM custody. The agency said it is committed to “following up on the investigation until it reaches its legal conclusion.”
Mexico has more than 133,000 missing people, according to data from the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, which tracks disappearances dating back to the 1950s. Human rights defenders, however, have warned that official statistics contain a “significant undercount” of missing people from other countries.
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