BREAKING: Two Americans who survived a violent kidnapping in Mexico have returned to the U.S., authorities said.
have been found dead and two are alive, Mexican and U.S. authorities said on Tuesday. Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said that one of the surviving U.S. citizens was wounded and the other was not.
"The investigation is in its earliest days," Price told reporters."I understand we may have more to share from the FBI at the appropriate time." The governor did not share any details about where or how they were found or the nature of the wounded American's injuries. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that one person was in custody in connection with the abduction, the Associated Press reported.
An American woman, abducted in Mexico last week, sits inside an ambulance after she was found alive in Ejido Longoreno, on the outskirts of Matamoros, Mexico, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. A convoy of ambulances and SUVs transported the survivors to a section of the U.S.-Mexico border near Brownsville hours after they were found on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Whether the bodies of the deceased individuals were transported along with them was not immediately known.
"During this difficult time, I want to offer my deepest sympathies to the families of the Americans who were attacked and kidnapped," Garland said. "All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men," the office said. At the time, the FBI announced a $50,000 reward in exchange for the victims' return as well as the kidnappers' arrests.
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