Mexico City authorities free a dozen more slave workers

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A rehabilitation center in Azcapotzalco borough where a dozen people were freed from forced work may be connected to a drug clinic where authorities freed more than 100 so-called slave workers last week, Mexico City prosecutors said.

Authorities conducted a raid Friday of a factory inside the rehabilitation center in the northern borough. Police were tipped off by a man who said he was kidnapped and forced to make boxes to package bottles of tequila, officials said.

The raid followed a case last week in which authorities said 105 people were being forced to make items such as shopping bags inside a drug clinic in Iztapalapa, an eastern borough. Some workers told authorities that they had been snatched from the streets, beaten, robbed and forced to labor in slave-like conditions.

The cases remain under investigation.

-- Efrain Hernandez Jr.