MATAMOROS, Mexico - Two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen on Friday (March 3) just after they drove into northeastern Mexico have been found dead, US and Mexican officials said on Tuesday, in a grim reminder of the lawlessness plaguing parts of the border region. The survivors and the two bodies were discovered by Mexican security forces on Tuesday morning...
Mexico's Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodriguez, Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Secretary of the Navy Admiral Jose Rafael Ojeda and Tamaulipas State Governor Americo Villarreal attend a news conference on kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico City, Mexico on March 7, 2023.
One of the two surviving Americans suffered a gunshot wound to his leg that was not life-threatening, while the other, a woman, was not injured, Villarreal told a news conference. "We're very sorry to have this happen in our country and we send our condolences to the families of the victims, their friends, to the people of the United States," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told an earlier news conference.
A video circulating on social media purportedly of the kidnapping showed a woman being walked towards a white pickup truck by a group of men with body armor and guns. She was forced into the back before the men dragged in two prone figures. Williams was receiving treatment in hospital in Brownsville, Texas, across the border from Matamoros, the official said.US Republicans, in particular, have been pushing for the US government to take a tougher line on organised crime south of the border amid rising overdose deaths caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels.
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