Two Americans whose abduction in Mexico was captured in a video that showed them caught in a cartel shootout have been found dead, officials said Tuesday.
Two others who were kidnapped with them were found alive, with one wounded. Read more: Canadians in Mexico advised to take shelter as cartel violence breaks out in streets Tamaulipas Gov.
Americo Villarreal said ambulances and security forces were bringing them to safety, but did not provide details on the extent of the wounded person’s injuries.
The FBI had said Sunday it was searching with Mexican authorities for the missing U.S. citizens. A relative of one of them said Mondaythat they had traveled together from South Carolina so one of them could get a tummy tuck from a doctor in the city of Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas.