Authorities mexican moved this Tuesday to USA the two US citizens released after being kidnapped in the northern state of Tamaulipas last Friday, along with two other citizens of the neighboring country who died in the dramatic events.
“Federal and state corporations, with personnel from the United States Consulate in Matamoros, delivered 2 citizens of that country on an international bridge, located today after they were deprived of their liberty on March 3.”indicated through Twitter the prosecutor of Tamaulipas, Irving Barrios.
matamoros It is located just 4 kilometers from Brownsville (Texas), on the other side of the border.
This morning, the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villareal, indicated that the four kidnapped Americans had been located, two of them dead.
“35 minutes ago it was confirmed by the Prosecutor’s Office (that) of the four (Americans) there are two deceased, one person injured and another alive,” Villareal detailed in a live call during the daily morning conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Put on loudspeaker, the governor explained that an hour before he had been notified that there were indications of having seen the four US citizens.
Likewise, he said that authorities and relatives are currently going to the place and health personnel are also on the way. “to give the medical support that may be required.”
The Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, notified during the conference that there is already a detainee in relation to the case.
Rodríguez will give a press conference at 1:00 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. GMT) to give more details about the progress in the case.
The FBI reported on Sunday the disappearance of the four Americans, kidnapped last Friday after crossing the border in the border city of Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, one of the Mexican states hardest hit by violence.
Investigators believe the Americans were mistakenly targeted by a Mexican cartel that likely mistook them for Haitian drug traffickers, a US official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
Source: EFE
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