2 female Mormon missionaries kidnapped, freed by special police in Guatemala
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Guatemalan authorities say two female Mormon missionaries were kidnapped for two days before being freed by a special police anti-kidnapping unit helped by the FBI.
Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla says three kidnappers were captured during the rescue of the 22-year-old missionaries, one from the U.S. and the other from Ecuador.
He said the two were taken Wednesday and held in a house in the town of Escuintla, about 30 miles from the capital. The kidnappers had demanded a $5 million ransom.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Lopez said the women had no obvious injuries or signs of ill treatment. He added that two of the kidnappers were Nicaraguan men and the other was an 18-year-old Guatemalan woman.
Guatemala has one the world's highest rates of kidnapping.