Two of the four U.S. citizens whose Friday kidnapping at a Mexican border town by a local drug cartel was captured on a gripping video have been found dead, while the other two have been found alive, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Tuesday.
and Shaeed Woodard. Mr. Williams had survived and was receiving medical care Tuesday, a relative said. Officials haven’t yet identified who died.
Mr. Villarreal told reporters Tuesday the four were found in a wooden shack in a rural area near Mexico’s Gulf Coast, where they were being guarded by a man who was arrested. Mr. Villarreal said the captive Americans had been moved around by their captors, and at one point were taken to a medical clinic “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them.”offered condolences Tuesday to the family and friends of victims, but declined to say more, citing privacy concerns.
But National Security Council spokesman John Kirby cautioned that it was “just too soon” to discuss “any policy changes or vectors as a result of this attack. We are still learning more from the Mexican officials right now.” The two surviving Americans were back in the United States after being sped to the border near Brownsville, in a convoy escorted by Mexican military vehicles and National Guard trucks, The Associated Press reported. A State Department spokesman said the Biden administration was working to repatriate the bodies of the two dead Americans.
Mr. Villarreal did not share any additional details about the original incident, but U.S. officials quickly zeroed in on the violence and carnage created by“The cartels are responsible for the deaths of Americans,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The DEA and the FBI are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on.
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