Mexico arrests cartel members linked to murders of 10 workers from Canadian mining company
- Updated on: October 19, 2026 / 6:30 AM EDT / CBS/AFP Add CBS News on Google Mexican authorities said on Sunday that they had arrested five men linked to the kidnapping and murder of 10 workers from a Canadian mining company in the country's northwest.
- The workers, all Mexicans, were kidnapped at gunpoint on January 23 from a silver mining project belonging to Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver in the violence-plagued state of Sinaloa.
- The bodies of the 10 men, two of whom were engineers and one a geologist, were later found buried in clandestine graves.
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- Updated on: October 19, 2026 / 6:30 AM EDT / CBS/AFP Add CBS News on Google Mexican authorities said on Sunday that they had arrested five men linked to the kidnapping and murder of 10 workers from a Canadian mining company in the country's northwest.
- The workers, all Mexicans, were kidnapped at gunpoint on January 23 from a silver mining project belonging to Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver in the violence-plagued state of Sinaloa.
- The bodies of the 10 men, two of whom were engineers and one a geologist, were later found buried in clandestine graves.
Sources: CBS News