THIS is the terrifying moment a nine-year-old boy was snatched off the street and bundled into a car at knifepoint on his way to school.
Chilling CCTV footage captured the moment the youngster was kidnapped while walking with his mum in the central Mexican city of Huehuetoca.
The boy was holding his mum's hand as they were walking with other parents and kids shortly before 8am on Monday, when two gunmen jumped out of a red Nissan Platina.
A gunman grabbed the boy and shoved him into the car while the other man whacked the woman on the side of the head with his gun and stole her belongings.
The kidnappers fled and later demanded $200,000 from the boy's family for his release, Almomento reports.
Cops launched an urgent manhunt and tracked down the nine-year-old and his abductors at a house just five miles away from the neighbourhood of Benito Juárez.
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Police raided the home on Wednesday night and rescued the boy.
His eyes had reportedly been covered with a piece of cloth to stop him making eye contact with his captors.
Four men and two women have been arrested, along with a teenage girl.
The suspects have been named by local media as Moisés Alexander, Erick Mateo, Omar Avelardo, and Leonel Eduardo, Glenda and Lucila Guadalupe.
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Prosecutors said the defendants are part of a notorious gang that terrorise residents in an area that spans Mexico City and the eastern half of Mexico.
The suspects are expected to appear before a federal State of Mexico judge for their arraignment.
The nine-year-old boy is the second youngster to be kidnapped this week in Mexico.
David Navarrete, 10, was reportedly abducted by his dad while his mum was walking him to school on Monday in Nezahualcóyotl.
Navarrete was rescued later the same day, the State of Mexico prosecutor's office said.
The spate of kidnappings has prompted the city government in Huehuetoca to ramp up police presence at dozens of schools and universities.
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According to National Registry of Missing and Non-Located Persons, there have been 2,827 children under the age of 17 kidnapped between January 1 last year and June 10 this year.
At least 22 per cent of the kidnappings were reported in Mexico.
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