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Weekly Report - 23 March 2017 (WR-17-11)
MEXICO: Sinaloa security situation deteriorates
Eight people appear to have been kidnapped in an outlying neighbourhood of Culiacán, the capital of the north-western state of Sinaloa, but the incident remains unclear. A video circulating on social media last week showed four municipal police officers arresting the eight near a tortilla stand, and then handing them over to heavily armed men who drove off with them in a number of vehicles.
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