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Associated Press - March 11, 2010 9:45 AM ET
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Eight journalists have reportedly been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere.
The Inter-American Press Association says only 3 of the journalists kidnapped between Feb. 18 and March 3 in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, have reappeared alive.
It said one died of apparent torture, two were released alive and five remain missing. IAPA President Alejandro Aguirre (ah-lay-HAHN'-droh ah-GEER'-ay) says, "The Mexican government must act with urgency and with due force to rescue these journalists alive."
Aguirre called the abductions "serious and without precedent in the Western Hemisphere."
The abductions were apparently carried out by drug gangs in the Gulf coast state of Tamaulipas, where Reynosa is located. State prosecutors in Tamaulipas and the federal attorney general's office in Mexico City couldn't immediately confirm the report.
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