AMLO confirms demise of Mexican Orión Hernández

Mexico Metropolis. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed this Friday that yesterday the physique of French-Mexican Orión Hernández was situated in Gaza, who had been taken hostage within the assault by the Palestinian extremist group Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7.

“We did every thing to free him, to avoid wasting his life, sadly it was not attainable,” mentioned the president in his press convention, the place he expressed his condolences to Hernández’s relations. “I ship a hug to his household, to his father, who lives in Chile.”

“Very unlucky, one of many hostages was discovered lifeless, Orión Hernández,” mentioned the person from Tabasco, who added that “it’s assumed and is being maintained that from the primary days of the arrest, the kidnapping, he was murdered, he misplaced his life.”

López Obrador recalled that one other Mexican, Ilana Gritzewsky, had additionally been kidnapped on October 7, however was launched final 12 months.

The president added that, in one other case, two compatriots who’re a part of the crew of a cargo ship kidnapped in interconnected waters of the Pink Sea are nonetheless captive.

“We’ve got two kidnapped individuals on a ship, they’re alive, they’re nice, efforts are being made” for his or her rescue, he said.