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| One of the suspects under arrest |
At least ten children were kidnapped from their school in broad daylight, according to police reports in Mexico.
Police said that ten children were abducted from a kindergarten in the central Mexican state of Morelos, but were released a few hours later, and emergency workers said that they are all "in good health".
"The children have been found and are in good health," the governor, Graco Ramirez, who belongs to the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, said in a Twitter message.
"We have arrested several suspects," Ramirez said, adding that the kidnapping of children was a "criminal provocation" that the authorities will not tolerate.
State Government Secretary George Messeguer said on Twitter that the children were found inside the Espana Hotel in central Cuernavaca, just two hours after they were kidnapped.
"The kidnapping happened through a telephone hoax," the official said. An investigation is underway to determine the facts of the case.
He also said that several people have made statements about the incident, including officials of the kindergarten and a teacher in the town of Chamilpa.
Parents of the children said they had received a phone call from the alleged kidnappers demanding $77,000 in exchange for the safe release of children.