The mayor of Río Bravo (Mexico) is located alive after managing to escape from his kidnappers and having walked more than 80 kilometers to Coahuila

The mayor of Río Bravo, Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, was found alive this Sunday in the state of Coahuila, after having been kidnapped by a group of armed men on Saturday afternoon on a highway in central-northern Mexico, as confirmed by Mexican authorities.

Almaraz Maldonado, of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), governs the municipality of Río Bravo, in the state of Tamaulipas, bordering the United States.

The mayor managed to escape from his captors after taking advantage of an oversight and ran all night until he reached Coahuila, as confirmed to local media.

"Suddenly they got out of there, we jumped over the fence and ran for an hour without stopping and then we wandered all night 80 kilometers until we got here," he said, without specifying who or who was accompanying him.

Almaraz Maldonado assured that he is fine after what he described as a "bad experience." "No blows (or) injuries, nothing like that, but terrible scares, yes," commented the mayor.

Hours earlier, the Secretary of Security of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch, reported the location of the official after the activation of a coordinated operation between the federal government and the states of Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí (central-north), Coahuila and Tamaulipas (north).

"The municipal president of Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, who was missing, was located," the official noted in a message on the social network X.

In the publication, García Harfuch shared the photograph of the mayor of Río Bravo, aboard a Coahuila security forces vehicle.

For its part, the Security Cabinet of the Mexican Government reported that "as a result of the search and investigation actions," Almaraz Maldonado "and his companions" were located.

The mayor was traveling with family and members of his team to Real de Catorce, a tourist destination in the state of San Luis Potosí, when he was intercepted on a highway on the border with Zacatecas, according to the entity's prosecutor, Cristian Paul Camacho, informed the media.

The prosecutor pointed out that, according to the progress of the investigation, several vehicles were intercepted by armed civilians and several people were abandoned on the road.

Previously, the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection of San Luis Potosí reported that the mayor's companions managed to reach the Potosí municipality of Cedral, where they reported the events.

The authorities of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas maintain contradictory versions about the place where the kidnapping occurred, while the circumstances of the attack have not yet been clarified.