Five purported gang members were handed over as a would-be apology for the abduction of four Americans, according to local media and a source familiar with the probe.
A soldier guards outside the Attorney General's Office of the State of Tamaulipas ahead of the transfer of the bodies of two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen to the U.S. border, in Matamoros, Mexico, March 8, 2023.
Two of the Americans and a Mexican woman died after gunmen opened fire on the U.S. citizens shortly after their arrival in Matamoros on Friday.
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