The Mexican authorities found the four Americans kidnapped last Friday in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, in the northern state of Tamaulipas, two of them dead and another wounded, state governor Américo Villarreal reported Tuesday.
“35 minutes ago it was confirmed by the Prosecutor’s Office (that), of the four, there are two deceased, one person injured and another alive,” Villareal explained in a live call during the daily morning conference of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. .
The president expressed his condolences to the family and relatives of US citizens. “We are very sorry that this is happening in our country and we send our condolences to the families of the victims, to the friends, to the people of the United States, to the Government of the United States and we are going to continue doing our job,” said the Mexican president.
López Obrador also assured that the Mexican authorities will continue working to guarantee security in the country, especially in the north. “We’re going to keep doing our job,” he said. “Those responsible are going to be found, they are going to be punished, as was done when women and children of the LeBaron, Miller and Langford family were murdered in Bavispe. All those involved were arrested,” said the president, who assured that In Mexico there is no impunity.
The FBI reported on Sunday the disappearance of the four Americans, who were kidnapped last Friday after crossing the border in the border city of Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, one of the Mexican states hardest hit by violence.
The four Americans, who were traveling in a car with North Carolina license plates, were attacked shortly after crossing into Mexico and were then forcibly loaded into a pickup truck by armed men, the San Antonio FBI reported.
Investigators believe the Americans were mistakenly targeted by a Mexican cartel that likely mistook them for Haitian drug traffickers, a US official familiar with the investigation told CNN.
The network also claimed to have obtained photos showing that the car the Americans may have been driving collided with another vehicle, before the travelers were abducted at gunpoint.
A video was also released showing armed men allegedly forcing several people, including a woman, into the back of the van.
