El Chapo's son kidnapped!

Fears are emerging tonight that the son of jailed drug kingpin El Chapo is among a group of people kidnapped from a restuarant.

They were taken by gunmen from a swanky restaurant in tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta - a top Mexican official confirmed earlier this evening.

"It is presumed" - but not yet confirmed - that Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán was among them.

He is the son of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.


The group were abducted from the La Leche restaurant by seven gunmen on Monday.

The victims were partying when the seven gunmen burst into the restaurant at 1am and rounded them up without firing a shot.

Five cars thought to belong to the missing men were later found in the parking lot.

Jalisco state Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer told Radio Formula the six taken "were not tourists or residents who work in legal activities.

"They were people tied to a criminal group we can very clearly presume."

It is unclear who was taken because, he said, "several of them had false identities."

El Chapo was convicted of smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine and heroin into the US via an extensive network of tunnels for two decades.

He was recaptured in January - six months after using a tunned to escape a prison where he was awaiting extradition to the US.