In handing over the five individuals, the Gulf Cartel drug traffickers left a message identifying them as responsible for the kidnapping of four US citizens and the murder of two of them.

According to Mexican authorities the victims crossed the border seeking medical treatment in Mexico’s Matamoros department.

The four Americans arrived in Matamoros, a high-crime city in the state of Tamaulipas, one of the most affected by the violence. Even the US State Department advises its citizens to avoid the area completely, citing kidnapping as one of the risks.

Mexican law enforcement officials focused their investigative leads on members of the Gulf Cartel, whom they blamed for the kidnapping of four Americans last Friday, believing them to be trespassing on their territory, according to an internal government document.

Two of the Americans, identified by Mexican officials as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, were found dead Monday in a cabin southeast of Matamoros, the border town in Tamaulipas state where the four were abducted Friday. With them were their fellow survivors, identified as Latavia McGee and Eric James Williams.

A handwritten sign blames five people for the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico, two of whom have died.

According to Infobae, the message was allegedly left by the Gulf Cartel’s “Scorpion Group” to condemn what their men did and apologize to society.

“The Gulf Cartel, Grupo Escorpiones, strongly condemns the events of Friday, March 3, in which, sadly, an innocent working mother died and 4 US citizens were kidnapped, 2 of whom died. responsible for the facts, acting at all times according to their own determination and indiscipline.”

“Those responsible acted” against the rules in which the ‘CDG’ has always operated, with respect for the life and integrity of the innocent. The CDG apologizes to Matamorense society, Ms. Arely’s relatives and affected American families. The CDG asks society to be calm as we are determined not to repeat those mistakes caused by indiscipline and to pay those responsible, whoever they are!!!”concludes the handwritten sign.

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On Friday, March 3, four U.S. citizens driving a white minivan with North Carolina license plates were attacked after entering the border town of Matamoros, the FBI said.

“The four Americans were placed in a vehicle and driven away by armed men,” the San Antonio FBI said in a statement.

Army and National Guard vehicles are involved in an operation to return two of four US citizens kidnapped in crime-ridden northeastern Mexico to Brownsville, US, after the other two were found dead in Matamoros . Photo: — STR

A Mexican woman was killed in the kidnapping on Friday. On Friday, she was hit by a stray bullet nearly a block and a half from where the victims were forced into a truck, Tamaulipas governor Américo Villarreal reported.

The victims, identified by US media as Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown (deceased), Eric James Williams, found injured, and Latavia McGee entered Mexico last Friday because one of them was planning to undergo cosmetic surgery.

The two surviving US citizens of the Mexico kidnapping are already in the United States. The fatalities will be examined in Mexico before being repatriated to the United States.

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers have been sent to Matamoros, the border town where a group of American tourists was kidnapped earlier this month, Mexico’s defense ministry said in a press release.

Along with the tragedy experienced by the American residents of South Carolina, an eye is being kept practice of thousands of US citizens crossing the border into Mexico in search of lower cost treatments or those who cannot access it in their country, despite the risks of traveling to an area known for drug-related armed violence.