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Mexican authorities said Friday that federal forces had found the body of one of 10 Canadian mining company employees who were kidnapped three weeks ago from a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
The attorney general’s office issued a statement Friday evening saying that “bodies and human remains” were found during the ongoing search for the abducted employees of Vizsla Silver Corp.
The statement said that one of the bodies “shares characteristics similar to one of the individuals reported missing” and that work was underway to confirm the identity.
The statement did not say how many other bodies were found.
The 10 employees of the Vancouver-based company were kidnapped on the morning of Jan. 23 from the city of Concordia, which sits about 50 kilometres east of the tourist coastal city of Mazatlán.
Vizsla Silver told CBC News in an emailed statement Friday evening that it was “in contact with the Mexican authorities leading the investigation and with the families of those affected.”
The company’s statement said it could not comment further.
Vizsla Silver has previously faced security concerns with its silver and gold mining exploration project called Panuco in Sinaloa.
It paused field work on April 4, 2025, due to “security conditions in the area,” according to a company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Mexican Security and Citizen Protection Secretary Omar Harfuch has said that it’s suspected that the employees were kidnapped by a faction of the Sinaloa cartel that’s controlled by the sons of Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán.
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