A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery left two Americans dead and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf Coast after a violent shooting and kidnapping was recorded on video, authorities said Tuesday. .
The surviving Americans were on their way home in the afternoon after being driven at top speed to the border near Brownsville, the southern tip of Texas, in a convoy of ambulances and pickup trucks escorted by armed Mexican military vehicles.
A relative of one of the victims said Monday that the four had traveled together from the Carolinas so one of them could have a tummy tuck with a doctor in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place. .
The Attorney General of Tamaulipas, Irving Barrios, clarified that there was no payment for the ransom of the Americans and specified that, according to the investigations, the kidnapping was carried out by members of the Gulf Cartel that operates in that region.
Although several lines of investigation were opened from the beginning, as is usual in these cases, “due to all this exchange of information the line of confusion is being strengthened, it was not a direct attack,” the prosecutor said. Barrios also ruled out that officials from US agencies have acted in Mexican territory in this case.
