Soon after the US citizens drove into the border city of Matamoros, Mexico they were fired upon and taken from the scene by armed men. The FBI is working to find the missing Americans.
The two Americans who survived a violent kidnapping ordeal in Mexico are back in the U.S., as questions remain after two members of the group died.The bodies of two Americans killed in an armed kidnapping in Mexico are expected to be returned to the US on Thursday, a source from the Mexico Attorney General's Office tells CNN, after two survivors of the attack returned to the US for treatment at a hospital.
Washington McGee was also taken to the hospital, her mother, Barbara Burgess, told CNN, though Mexican authorities said she was uninjured. However, during a Wednesday news briefing held by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a government-sponsored fact-checking agency claimed reports of the Americans being mistaken for Haitian drug traffickers are false. The president said "adversaries" in Mexico and the US are attempting to make a "scandal" of the case.Mexican authorities are still investigating the kidnapping.
"The ambulance was located, which, according to the testimony of the victims, was used to take them to the clinic," the statement said. No one was detained after officials located the clinic and ambulance, the statement said. A US delegation traveled to Mexico this week to "discuss our governments' ongoing cooperation in combating illicit fentanyl," a national security council spokesman told CNN on Wednesday.
Suddenly, another vehicle collided into the group's van and gunmen began shooting at the group, sending some of the friends running, according to Burgess, who recounted her daughter's experience. "They all got shot at the same time," she said.
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